Bydgoskie nazwiska pochodzenia niemieckiego. Rekonesans badawczy

• Authors: Małgorzata Jaracz

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BYDGOSZCZ SURNAMES OF GERMAN ORIGIN — RESEARCH RECONNAISSANCE

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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The influence of the German language on the development of the Polish naming system is indisputable. This is confirmed by the studies of Polish linguists and numerous publications authored by Edward Breza, Kazimierz Rymut, Barbara Czopek-Kopciuch, and others. In the early Middle Ages, the territories of Pomerania, Silesia, and Great Poland were beginning to be settled by German colonizers. Historians state that in the 14th century, the brothers Jan and Konrad Kiesselhuth founded what is today Bydgoszcz. The town received city law from King Kazimierz the Great and was said to be named originally Kunigesburg (Königsberg). For analysis of the influence of the German language on the development of surnames of Bydgoszcz’s inhabitants, three historical periods are important: 1. from the city’s founding to the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries; 2. the period of the Prussian partition (1772–1920); 3. the period of war and occupation (1939–1945). Invaluable for research on Bydgoszcz anthroponymy would be a search query of various types of sources, including address books for the city of Bydgoszcz from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, church books preserved in German archives, numerous documents from the State Archives in Bydgoszcz, and press and cartographic materials from the collections of the Municipal and Provincial Library. This would allow preparation of a comprehensive monograph on the subject of Bydgoszcz surnames of German origin.

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URBAN ANTHROPONYMY; SURNAMES; POLISH-GERMAN LANGUAGE CONTACT

• Publisher: Instytut Języka Polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk
• Journal: Onomastica
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 56
• Pages: 105–116

Contributors

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Małgorzata Jaracz

• Uniwersytet Kazimierza Wielkiego, Instytut Filologii Polskiej i Kulturoznawstwa, ul. Jagiellońska 11, 85-067 Bydgoszcz, Poland