(The one exception is Bastian, which I have listed under the much more familiar Sebastian, though the latter does not occur in the data.)įinally, it is not feasible to count persons, so I have counted citations this should still give a good general indication of which names were most popular.Ĭautions.
Medieval names full#
If, as with Örtel, no instance of the pet name is associated with a specific full form, I have made it a separate entry. I have listed other instance of the same pet form under the same full form, unless they are known to represent another.
If a citation includes both a pet form and a full form for the same person, I have listed the pet form under the full form. An example is Örtel, which may be from Ortlib, Ortolf, etc. Some of the pet forms are associated with more than one full name. (Sometimes this is no more than a more familiar form of the name.) Occasional brief comments appear in square brackets. Thus, there were two 1451 citations for Paul, two 1384 citations for Pauwel, two 1433 citations for Pawel, and one for each of the other forms. A number in parentheses immediately following a date indicates multiple citations from that year. In some cases Bahlow gave a range of dates, e.g., 1337-39, the third date for Paulus these have been inserted into the list according to the date at the middle of the range, in this case 1338. The numbers following the colon are the dates of the citations, listed in chronological order. I have omitted the number when a form appeared only once, as is the case with Pauel. The number 14 following the name Paul means that there were 14 instances of this form in the data. (Thus, Pawil immediately follows Pawel.) I have also generally placed Latinized forms, like Paulus, after the corresponding German forms, and I have tried to place the German diminutives before the ones that show Slavic influence. The order in which they are arranged is not entirely systematic, but I have generally tried to group similar forms together. This is followed by variants and then by diminutives and pet forms. For the headword I have generally chosen a form of the full name that is both typical of the data and reasonably familiar. Here is one of medium size, that for the name Paul. The arrangement of the data is most easily explained by reference to a typical entry. Thus, many of the names show Slavic influence, especially in the diminutives and pet forms. German settlement in the area did not really get under way until the 12 th century. A few citations, mostly early, are from other parts of the German language area.Īt the end of the first millenium, Silesia was inhabited by Slavonic tribes and was part of Poland. The 13 th and 16 th centuries are somewhat less well represented, and there is a handful of citations from the 12 th century or earlier.
More precisely, the bulk of the citations are from the 14 th and 15 th centuries. As is usual in medieval records, the overwhelming majority of persons named are men, but the book is still a rich trove of the given names used in Silesia in the 14 th and 15 th centuries. Most of the book is devoted to the bynames, but there is a short final section on given names, and most of the byname citations also include given names. The book is a study of personal names from medieval Silesian records, especially those of the towns of Legnica (Liegnitz), Wroclaw (Breslau), and Görlitz. The title may be translated Middle High German Name Book from Silesian Sources. This is a compilation of the given names found in Hans Bahlow’s Mittelhochdeutsches Namenbuch nach schlesischen Quellen (Neustadt an der Aisch: Verlag Degener & Co., 1975).
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