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Help[Facts] Re: Doris in early 19th century Germany
in reply to a message by clevelandkentevans
The university of Leipzig in Germany has a "Namensberatungsstelle", something like a information center for German given names. It is known as an authority in this matter. They list Doris on one of their name info pages:
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~vornam/wcms/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=29&Itemid=35
They say there that Doris became popular during the "Rokoko" (Late Baroque, 18th century) together with some other names in the wake of a type of literature called "Schäferpoesie" in German. Here an entry in a German encyclopedia from 1857 about that literary movement:
http://www.zeno.org/Herder-1854/A/Schäferpoesie
I couldn't find an English translation for "Schäferpoesie"; maybe "pastoral poetry"?
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~vornam/wcms/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=29&Itemid=35
They say there that Doris became popular during the "Rokoko" (Late Baroque, 18th century) together with some other names in the wake of a type of literature called "Schäferpoesie" in German. Here an entry in a German encyclopedia from 1857 about that literary movement:
http://www.zeno.org/Herder-1854/A/Schäferpoesie
I couldn't find an English translation for "Schäferpoesie"; maybe "pastoral poetry"?
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Yes, that would be the English translation.
Thanks for the link -- I have been steered to some other sites already by people on the American Name Society listserve. It turns out that pastoral poetry was even bigger in Germany than England, and Doris occurs in some of the more famous poems, such as one by Christiane Mariane von Ziegler than Franz Joseph Haydn set to music.
Thanks for the link -- I have been steered to some other sites already by people on the American Name Society listserve. It turns out that pastoral poetry was even bigger in Germany than England, and Doris occurs in some of the more famous poems, such as one by Christiane Mariane von Ziegler than Franz Joseph Haydn set to music.
This message was edited 3/30/2012, 12:47 PM
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