Meanings
nounGermanizer (plural Germanizers)
plural Germanizers · alternative Germaniser
- One who Germanizes.
That contributed directly to the nemesis of Emperor Joseph II, who – whatever his own conceptions – was regarded as a ‘Germaniser’, not an ‘Austrianiser’.
1994, R. J. W. Evans, “Austrian Identity in Hungarian Perspective: The Nineteenth Century”, in Ritchie Robertson, Edward Timms, editors, The Habsburg Legacy: National Identity in Historical Perspective (Austrian Studies; 5), Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 29
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