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Germanic studies as a science began to stand out only in the XVII century, when the interest has fallen to Romance philology and increased interest in their own languages.

At the beginning of the XIX century through the works of J. Grimm Germanic studies becomes "scientific executed."

1848, J. Grimm suggested and proved the relatedness of the Germanic languages with the Baltic and Slavonic ones. 

1850s, A. Schleicher published a number of articles in which he proved the relatedness of Germanic, Slavonic, and Baltic languages having based his research on a wider range of grammatical phenomena.

1858, C. Lottner demonstrates that Italic has many grammatical phenomena in common with the Slavonic, Celtic, Germanic, and Baltic languages; and not with the Greek group as it was thought before. 

In the late 19th century was reconstructed phonetics, vocabulary and grammar of proto-language, managed to prove a direct bearing on most of the Germanic roots and morphemes to the Proto-Indo-European language, dialectology reached a higher level. World saw a book on comparative grammar (Shtreytberg V., F. Kluge, G. Hirt, E. Prokosh), history and grammar of individual Germanic languages (C. Luik, A. Behagel, Shёnfeld M., A. Nuren) dictionaries, atlases dialectological and more.

The development of theoretical linguistics in the XX century has led to a rethinking of and impact on the further development of ideas about the Germanic languages.