ЕПИТАФИ НА САБОРНОМ ГРОБЉУ У СЕНТАНДРЕЈИ KAO ВАЖАН ИЗВОР ЗА АНТРОПОНИМИЈСКА ПРОУЧАВАЊА
TOMBSTONE EPITAPHS OF THE SERBIAN ORTODOX CATHEDRAL CEMETERY IN SZENTENDRE (HUNGARY) AS AN IMPORTANT SOURCE FOR ANTHROPONYMY RESEARCHES

Summary/Abstract: This study is an investigation in anthroponymy of a Serbian community in Szentendre (Hungary) based on linguistic material of Cathedral Cemetery covering the period after the Great Migration under Patriarch Arsenius Carnojevic in 1690 till nowadays. Personal name offers important insights into the patterns of social and cultural organisation of Serbian community and can be a key for following cultural changes. Around 300 names were recorded on the inscriptions of tombstone epitaphs. In the 20th century, in earlier multiethnic Szentendre (with strong Serbian community) the Hungarian population became a majority, while Serbian population due to the displacement, intense assimilation and age structure, rapidly decreased in number and started to lose its identity. These social, political and linguistic influences on the Serbian people of Szentandre have left their impact on naming patterns which resulted in certain increasing number of names of foreign origin. The aim of this paper is to present linguistic and socio-cultural analyse of collected material, focusing on traditional Serbian naming patterns in this community, but also on changes in it caused by different ethnic and religious surrounding. A survey of most common male and female names, accompanied by analyse of dynamics of variation of names during generations and centuries covered by this study is offered.

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