National identity transformations in the Galician German community between 1900 and 1938 based on a socio-onomastic analysis of the names given to children at baptism. Case studies of colonies: Podrzecze-Unterbach and Lednica Niemiecka Cover Image

Przemiany tożsamości narodowej w społeczności Niemców galicyjskich w latach 1900–1938 na podstawie analizy socjoonomastycznej imion nadawanych dzieciom podczas chrztu. Case studies kolonii Podrzecze-Unterbach i Lednica Niemiecka
National identity transformations in the Galician German community between 1900 and 1938 based on a socio-onomastic analysis of the names given to children at baptism. Case studies of colonies: Podrzecze-Unterbach and Lednica Niemiecka

Author(s): Tomasz Ryrych
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Galizien Germans; socioonomastics; Josefian settlement; identity transformations; national minorities

Summary/Abstract: The research described in the article indicates how identity transformations in the Galician German community are reflected in the frequency analysis of socio-onomastic names given to children at baptism. For the purposes of the article, male and female names given in both colonies in two time periods were examined. The interval from 1900–1918 was intended to reflect the existing onomastic tradition of the colonists, while the second interval (1919–1938) indicates identity transformations in the era of independent Poland and the looming spectre of German Nazism. The colonies were selected because of their different identity evolution in the interwar era.

  • Issue Year: 1/2024
  • Issue No: 58
  • Page Range: 67-87
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Polish