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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font> </font></p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">From: </font><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gI"><span class="gD">Helge Tietz</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:helgetietz@yahoo.com">helgetietz@yahoo.com</a></span></span></font><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><a href="mailto:hannehinz@t-online.de" target="_blank"></a><br>
Subject: </font><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gI">Shift from Dutch to German as language of instrcution at schools in the Lower Rhine area</span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
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</font><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><span>Dear Lowlanders,</span></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><br><span></span></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<font><span>I
am researching at the moment on the shift from Dutch to Standart German
as the language of instrcution in the Lower Rhine area schools
(Kleve/Kleef, Gelderen, Viersen etc.) in the 19th centruy when Prussia
increased the pressure to eliminate all minority languages in its
territory for schooling. In 1887 and 1887 substantials laws were passed
to effectively prohibit the use of Polish, Danish, Lithuanian and French
as languages of instruction but those laws never mention the Dutch
language although, according to various resources, Dutch was still the
language of instruction in most schools in the Lower Rhine area. My
questions are:</span></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><br><span></span></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><span>1. Does anyone have information of any laws passed concerning Dutch as a language
of instruction in the Lower Rhine area?</span></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><span> 2. Does
anyone have any information how the shift from Dutch to Standart German
occurred and possibly how it was enforced at the respective schools?</span></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><br><span></span></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<font><span>I
somehow assume that Dutch was simply regarded as a kind of Low Saxon
and therefore regarded as a "dialect", and since "dialect" teaching was
anyway out of the question no laws needed to be particularily created
for it. There are also suggestions that the shift was enforced through
the church language shift because many schools were effectively run by
the roman-catholic church. Once they were forced by the resepctive
bishop to preach in Standart German only so did then change the language
at the schools. But it would be really of great value if anyone has
more detailed information or can sent me links or literature who may
contain such
information.</span></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><br><span></span></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><span>Groeten vun <br></span></font></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><span>Helge</span></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><br></font></div><font><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
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