Wilhelm Friedrich (1882–1914) was the first to use the term “historical geography” and his work on medieval Bohemia, published in 1912, is still methodologically very inspiring. However, we know very little about the author himself; he is usually given as a professor at a Gymnasium, who died in the First World War; the following text provides some biographical detail about this almost forgotten figure.
This article is a contribution to the study of historical settlement of the central part of Podlasie region in the vicinity of Brańsk. On the basis of available archival sources, the author reconstructed the history of the Abramiki mill village and also established that the local family of millers was a branch of the Szpak boyar clan. The subject of the study was also the problem of origin of the toponym Abramiki and the microtoponym Szpakowszczyzna and their relations on the extra-linguistic level. The paper also discusses historical anthroponyms used to identify the members of the Abramik family of millers.
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