Jacobus Joannes Graaf’s scholarly study of Dutch baptismal names traces the etymology, historical development, and regional distribution of personal names used in the Netherlands. He draws on ecclesiastical records, literary sources, and linguistic analysis to map how names derived from Germanic, Latin, Hebrew, and Greek roots evolved through the medieval and early modern periods into the distinctively Dutch naming traditions of his own day.
A specialised but rewarding work for historians of Dutch culture and language, genealogists, and linguists. Note: this text is in Dutch.