Baltistics

First signs of researching and comparing of the Baltic languages – Lithuanian and Latvian – were seen in the writings of the grammar creators (Daniel Klein, Grammatica Litvanica 1653, Gotthard Friedrich Stender, Lettische Grammatik 1783).

Prussian language was researched by Georg Heinrich Ferdinand Nesselmann (Die Sprache der alten Preussen an ihren Ueberresten erlaeutert, 1845) and Erich Berneker (Die preussische Sprache, 1896).

From 1718 to 1944, a seminar for the study of the Lithuanian language took place in the University of Königsberg.

Despite the trend in education since the latter part of the 20th century towards economic rationalism and its impacts on humanities departments,[3] baltistics as a course of study is still offered by a surprising number of universities in the Baltic region and further afield.

[10] In North America, there is an undergraduate Baltic studies program offered by Washington University in St.