Slogovni pojav historizma je do zdaj najbolj temeljito preučevala umetnostna zgodovina. Po najbolj osnovni, enciklopedični opredelitvi izraz zaznamuje pojav privzemanja preteklih umetnostnih oblik in preteklih slogov, ki je bil značilen za konec 18. in večino 19. stoletja, njegove odmeve pa je mogoče zaslediti še v 20. stoletju. Prelomni novosti historizma sta bila pluralizem slogov in njihova funcionalizacija. Družbeni nosilec novega slogovnega pojava je bilo meščanstvo, ki si je po utrditvi ekonomskega položaja s historičnimi slogi tudi navzven prizadelvalo zagotoviti priznanje legitimnosti svoje vladavine. - Glavna teza prispevka je, da slogovni pojav historizma v 19. stoetju tudi v slovenskih deželah ni bil značilnost samo stavbarstva, kiparstva, slikarstva, uporabnega oblikovanja in umetnostnih besedil, ampak tudi znanstvenih in poljudnoznanstvenih ter celo časopisnih besedil. V besedilih se je historizem kazal v sožitju in spopadanju sveh slogovnih naravnanosti, retorike, ki se je naslanjala na kulturno tradicijo, in "naravn" poetike živega jezika, ki so jo pospeševale globoke družbene spremembe v slovenskem narodu. Historicism has been studies most in detail in art history. Accroding to the most basic, encyclopedic definition of the term, it denotes the phenomenon of adopting earlier art forms and styles, a method which was characteristic of the late 18th century and the most of the 19th century, with some late echoes also in the 20th century. the key novelties of Historicism were plurality of styles and their functionalisation. The social class associated with this new style was the bourgeoisie, which - having secured a comfortable social status - sought to achieve en external recognition of the legitimacy of its social dominance. - The central thesis in this paper is that in Slovenia the style ofHistoricism was characteristic not only of architecture, painting, sculpturing, design, and literature, but also of scientific and popular scientific texts and even of journalistic articles. In these texts, it manifested itself as a coexsistence of and a a conflict between two stylistic orientations, viz. that of rhetoric, which built on cultural tradition, and that of a "natural" poetics of the living language, which was promoted by the profound social changes in the Slovene nation.