The paper presents a collection of proper names (first names and surnames), that was edited as a reprint from the Saxon Academy of Sciences (Leipzig). The now available names of the so called “Nienborger Atlas” contain more than 750 first names and surnames from homeowners of the city of Leipzig in the year 1712 and was not yet evaluated onomastically.

Danish family names seem to be easy to understand and interpret. The 50 most frequent Danish family names are carried by 70% of the Danish population, all of which end with the typical suffix –sen. Thus, other means than the family name are used to distinguish people carrying the same name, namely the first name and the middle name (e. g. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the name of the Danish Prime Minister). The history of laws concerning Danish family names is long, starting as early as 1526. Since then, six different laws were passed in 1828, 1857, 1898, 1904, 1961, and most recently, in 2005. All of these aimed at a diversification of the Danish name landscape. Today, every name that is carried by more than 2000 people, can be chosen by those who wish to change their family name. In the first year after the new law has been in force, 40000 Danes changed their family names and the authorities are expecting equally high numbers of applications for name changes in the coming years.

Es ist allgemein bekannt, dass Personennamen im Russischen eine immense Zahl von Verkleinerungsformen bzw. Diminutiva besitzen; solch eine Vielfalt von Ableitungsvarianten kennt keine andere Sprache. Die Fortschritte der Onomastik unterstreichen und beweisen dennoch die Notwendigkeit einer noch gründlicheren Forschung im Bereich der PN - nicht nur synchronisch, sondern vor allem auch diachronisch, weil sich die Geschichte der russischen Anthroponymie weit bis in längst vergangene Zeiten zurückverfolgen lässt und mit der Geschichte des russischen Volkes und seiner Sprache aufs Engste verbunden ist

Ziel der Dissertation war die Analyse der modernen tschechischen offiziellen Personennamenvarianten slawischen Ursprungs sowie der slawischen autochthonen Namen (Komposita und einstämmigen Namen), die in modernen tschechischen Familiennamen auftreten.

William CAMDEN launched the study of English Christian names 400 years ago. In the chapter 'Christian Names.' of his book Remaines of a Greater Worke(1605) he gives an account of the most important aspects of Christian names and presents two lists of those Christian names common at the time. CAMDEN not only exploits English scholarship but above all draws considerably upon Continental scholarship. It is his 'comparative' and source-based approach to Christian names that makes the aforementioned chapter a worthy pioneering work on English Christian names.

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This is the eighth in a series of interviews with Italian writers on literary names. The purpose of this series is to complement the indirect approach of investigating strategies of literary naming in literary texts by directly questioning those who give names to literary characters or places. The interviews are to provide evidence of tendencies in literary naming in contemporary Italian writers. General conclusions will in due course be drawn from the material to be presented in the series. The present interview with Luigi Malerba was conducted in Rome on 30 April 2005.

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Die gegenwärtigen Auseinandersetzungen um das Konzept der Alteuropäischen Hydronomie gehen allmählich von verständlichen Diskrepanzen in unverständliche Dissonanzen über. Sie führen weder im Einzelnen noch im Ganzen weiter und können deshalb hier übergangen werden. Viel wichtiger scheinen mir dagegen jene Annahmen zu sein, die sich hinter üblichen Termini verstecken und damit weitere Fehleinschätzungen vorprogrammieren.

The essay represents the thesis that the s-mobile phenomenon had not only appeared in Indo-European, but stayed alive in Germanic until after the First Sound Shift. With this assumption a number of words with Germanic p-, t-, k- as initial sound can be put down to elder sp-, st-. sk- forms and can thus be better etymologized than until now. Furthermore, some words traditionally being seen as loanwords can be classified as Germanic. As shown in the essay new possibilities for interpreting river- and place-names arise.