System antroponimiczny Niemców rosyjskich (1763-1917) jako przykład wpływu zmiany otoczenia etniczno-społecznego na stan nazewnictwa osobowego
The Anthroponymic System of Russian Germans (1763-1917) as an Example of the Influence of Changes in the Ethnic and Social Environment on Personal Naming

Summary/Abstract: The authors have put into order and analysed fragmentary information, scattered over various sources, regarding changes in the anthroponymy of Russian Germans from the moment of their arrival in Russia until 1917. They found: 1) an impoverishment of the stock of anthroponyms due to the tradition of name transmission from generation to generation, as well as a lack of contact with the ethnic German language and isolation from the new environment; 2) the persistence of native traditions for the first century (the use of dialectal forms: dr Karl, die Jule, Was Anne; double names: Georg-Heinrich; a two-part naming formula: Peter Wiebe); 3) the spontaneous influence of Russian (the penetration of Russian anthroponyms, e.g. Alexander – Sascha; the use of a first name and patronymic: Karl Karlowitsch; the appearance of nickname-hybrids: S Monachs Van’ka; from the mid-nineteenth century the adoption by some Germans of the three-part naming formula); 4) Russification by administrative means (from the 1870s the inclusion of Germans in the three-part anthroponymic formula, the introduction of the Russian patronymic formants -вич, -овна /-евна, forcing the abandonment of the use of double first names, the replacement in documents of German names by Russian ones, e.g. Andrei instead of Heinrich).

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