Vornamenschatz der deutschen und flämischen Mädchen im 19. Jahrhundert anhand der evangelischen Taufregister von Braunschweig und der katholischen Taufregister von Leuven (1838-1898)

• Authors: Majewska, Ewa

Title variants

EN

The set of first names of German and flemish girls in the 19th century based on the evangelic baptism registers from brunswick and the catholic baptism registers from Leuven (1838-1898)

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

EN

The topic of this paper are female first names in the 19th century. They have been given by Flemish Catholics and German Protestants to their daughters. The girls had been baptized in St. Geertrui Church in Leuven (Flanders) and St. Catherine Church in Brunswick (Germany) in the period 1838—1898. The data were taken from the baptism registers of these churches. The quantity of names, their frequency, origin and forms have been examined. The names had been classified to several groups according to their sort. The set of first names and its changes in Germany and Flanders have been compared. There are differences between the number of names, the interest for some names and the type of names in German protestant and Flemish catholic communities. Although Reformation and the Counter-Reformation had left some restrictions for the giving of names for the Catholic and Protestants, the confessors seemed in the 19th century not to pay much attention to these orders and have been motivated probably by other reasons as well.

Keywords

EN

onomastics; German Protestants; Flemish Catholics; religion; names giving; baptism registers

CS

onomastika

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta onomastica
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 55
• Pages: 187-197
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Majewska, Ewa

• Acta onomastica, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic