Anglophile

Anglophilia ( word formation with suffix from ancient Greek φιλία Philia "friendship ", " love", " affection " ) refers to the love from non- English for English. The exaggeration of form is the Anglomania. The antonym for Anglophilia is Anglo phobia, the fear of full English.

One of the fathers of the continental Anglophilia was the Frenchman Voltaire, (also known as " Lettres anglaises " ) 1733/1734 sang in his " Lettres philosophiques " the praises of English liberty, in order to create a positive counter-image to the states in continental Europe (see Voltaire in England).

The Anglophile in Germany is a movement that was rooted in the literature and has gone into politics. Thomas Mann expressed, for example: "If I were born only in the Anglo-Saxon culture! " Anglophile and a germanophilia, the love of all Germans acted as a mirror image. The German Anglophilia followed the English reception of German classics and romantics and subsequently turn the reception of English germano hydrophilic writer in Germany.

Known for their Anglophilia the Hanseatic League (see, in detail Anglophilia of the Hanseatic League ), who emulated beyond the English lifestyle. Under the influence of his Anglophilia Hamburg is still apostrophized as " the allerenglischste city on the continent ".