[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Elisabeth and Luise

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G|nter:
    A very good expanation!

Danke Schvn!

John

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  >There appears to be a considerable frequency of interchangeability between
the given names of Elisabeth and Luise in German Lutheran church records from
Poland.
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  >For example, a birth record might indicate the child's name as being
Elisabeth but in a death record it might be recorded as Luise.  This occurs
frequently enough to make one believe there is some sort of connection between
the two names.
  >Does anyone have a likely explanation for this?
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  Hello John,
  yes, though it sounds a bit curious. Common German nicknames for
  Elisabeth were Elise or Liesel which sound very similar to Louise
  (German spelling Luise).

  In turn, Louise is actually the female version of Louis (Louis IX, king
  of France), originally derived from the Frankonian king Chlodwig (in
  German Ludwig). Thus they mixed up the names of two completely different
  saints (Louise de Marillac, the founder of the "Ladies of Charity", and
  Elizabeth [Isabella] of Portugal resp. her great-aunt, Elizabeth of
  Hungary).

  Guenther
  of Hilden, Germany