Talk:Carl Jaenisch

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Middle name[edit]

I have corrected the article to give Jaenisch's middle name as "Ferdinand", instead of "Friedrich". Besides the genealogical research I cited, and the scholarship fund I cited, two additional sources support "Ferdinand", but it was cumbersome to cite them as they were in non-English sources:

http://www.e3e5.com/article.php?id=1546 (Russian) -- the author cites the birth/baptism record for Jaenisch in the Lutheran Church of Vyborg.

http://quilmesescueladeajedrez.blogspot.com/2009/07/carl-jaenisch-el-didacta.html (Spanish) -- the author cites the registry for Jaenisch in the Volkov cemetery of St. Petersburg, where he is buried.

Of course, many sources, including (for example) Hooper and Whyld's Oxford Companion to Chess, give "Friedrich". The first appearance of this middle name in print that I have found is the obituary that I cited. I do not know why the name given in this obituary differs from the name given in the baptism record, the cemetery record, and the scholarship fund record.

I have removed the discussion of the alternative spelling Ениш. From Jaenisch's writings it is clear enough how he spelled his name in the Russian Cyrillic alphabet. I know of no reason to think that he (or his family) ever considered alternative spellings.

Андреевич (Andreyevich) is his patronymic, i.e. it indicates the given name of his father. It is not a "middle name" in the sense used in Western European languages. Bruce leverett (talk) 13:17, 6 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Finnish-Russian... or German?[edit]

The name certainly indicates that he was of German descent. There are Baltic Germans and the "von" indicates that he was a member of the German nobility. Is there any info available on this? MaxBrowne (talk) 07:45, 24 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]