Namenrechtliche Anfänge in Österreich: Frühe Regelungen zu Namenwahl, Namenführung, Namenwechsel und Namenschreibung von Ruf- un Familiennamen

• Autores: Axel Linsberger
• Localización: Onoma: Journal of the International Council of Onomastic Sciences, ISSN 0078-463X, Nº. 47, 2012 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Names and law), págs. 203-222
• Idioma: alemán
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• Resumen

  • The origin of laws concerning personal naming dates from the reign of Maria Theresia and Josef II. They are documented in a series of directives and decrees. These directives, the beginning of official regulations about the selection, bearing, change and orthography of the given and family names of various ethnicities, are an important foundation for our present-day understanding of names, and they have pragmatic consequences which have formed and continue to form our recent name-stock and our current onomastic landscape. Till now the beginning of name law in Austria has rarely been the subject of original study, and if it has been mentioned at all, it has been on the periphery of discussions of circumstances in Germany. This article assembles those directives which are the most important from an Austrian viewpoint, offers comments from the perspective of onomastics, and reproduces them for further scientific analysis in a form as faithful to the originals as possible. Alongside general legal sources which are in part already known but often unsatisfactorily cited, there is special emphasis on sources which have hitherto received little attention, and also on the special, in part chronologically later, regulations concerning Jews, women and bastard children.