Antroponimie subiectivă. Scurt istoric al cercetărilor privind numele de persoană din vechile documente româneşti
Subjective Anthroponimy. A Brief History Concerning Person Names from Old Romanian Documents

Summary/Abstract: This article proposes a chronological survey on researches regarding person names excerpted from Romanian medieval documents, starting with important names like Franz Miklosich, B.P. Hasdeu, Ioan Bogdan and reaching to the most recent contributions signed by Christian Ionescu, Domniţa Tomescu, Aspazia Reguş, and Corneliu Reguş. Such a brief history of onomastic literature from Romanian space reveals a rich diversity which various authors have granted the field in the last century. In historical anthroponimy studies some hypotheses have been launched and analytical and interpretative models have increasingly become solid references for most scholars. Working at the end of the nineteenth century, Miklosich was not aware of form-origin confusion, so that he stated a certain Slavic original character of Romanian onomastic system. A century later, Ioan Pătruţ separated methodologically Slavic names from Romanian ones that derived from a Slavic theme. Thus, one has to be aware of a polymorphic evolution of anthoponimy during more than one hundred years that makes the whole field somehow difficult to evaluate it in general statements.

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