[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Re: Joachim

[Günther Böhm]

rbbtfarm schrieb:

>Joachim seems familiar to me. I have done some extensive Bible studies and I
>think I have either seen it there (Old Testament ?) or heard it through my
>daughter. She married in the Jewish faith. You might check for clues along
>those lines. It could be an Jewish form of more commonly known Christian
>(Latin) names. Possibly it is the same as Joseph.
>Good hunting. Hope this helps,  Tricia M.
>

Hi everybody,
JOACHIM is the German, English and French spelling of the 
old-testamentarian king JOJACHIM of Juda (-609 to -597 when he had to 
subjugate to the Babylonian army of king Nebukadnezar). A second 
biblical event of JOJACHIM is the father of St. Mary (Saint, grandfather 
of Jesus; his grandmother was St. Anna). The Italian spelling is 
GIOACCHINO (think of Rossini), the spanish one JOAQUMN, the Portugese 
one JOAQUIM. The abbrevated German forms are JOCHEN, JOCHEM, JOCHIM and 
ACHIM, JOCKEL and JOCKI (Swiss German). The Skandinavian abbrevation is 
KIM, the Russian one AKIM. An English abbrevation is JACK though more 
common for JACOB[US].

Guenther
of Hilden, Germany