A Selected and Annotated Bibliography for the Research of Official Surname Changes in Hungary

Tamás Farkas

doi:10.5195/ahea.2012.87

Abstract

The bibliography presented here contains only those publications in the field which are possible to study without knowledge of the Hungarian language, i.e. which were written in English or other foreign languages, or which simply publish a database of the name changes. The annotations are based on the texts of the publications and the abstracts (if they were available). Naturally, there are also many additional contemporary sources and scholarly publications available in the field in Hungarian, many (lately the majority) include an English abstract

Highlights

The bibliography presented here contains only those publications in the field which are possible to study without knowledge of the Hungarian language, i.e. which were written in English or other foreign languages, or which publish a database of the name changes
DebrecenHelsinki. (See : http://mek.oszk.hu/06800/06838.) This paper presents the history, the interdisciplinary character and the secondary literature of the research in the field of official surname changes in Hungary, followed by an account of the work and the plans of an interdisciplinary research group
Toronto: York University: 365-374. (See : http://pi.library.yorku.ca/dspace/handle/10315/3967.) The paper overviews the development of the surname stock of different minorities in historical Hungary, including the official influence in some cases. It studies the connotative value of surnames of a given ethnic character in a different linguistic and cultural context, and the process of the assimilation of these names and their bearers. It analyzes the reasons and the ways of the spontaneous and the official surname changes, and how the linguistic characteristics of the original foreign surnames and the existing Hungarian surname stock both could influence the formation of the new names, as well as the structure of the surname system in Hungary

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The bibliography presented here contains only those publications in the field which are possible to study without knowledge of the Hungarian language, i.e. which were written in English or other foreign languages, or which publish a database of the name changes. “A Selected and Annotated Bibliography for the Research of Official Surname Changes in Hungary.” AHEA: E-journal of the American Hungarian Educators Association, Volume 5 (2012): http://ahea.net/ejournal/volume-5-2012 and 1906) in Hungary, written by the most zealous and self-appointed promoter of Name Magyarizations, Simon Telkes (earlier Rubin).

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