of course
but my family was not christian and my grand-mother was religious; on
the other hand my grand father was a faithfull austrian official
you know the suffering of these jews when the rumanian overtook bukovina...
this was the reason of my guess
anyway, "se non è vero è bene trovato"
best regards
On 01/09/2015 09:04, Berti Glaubach wrote:
> The name Josef is a little older than Franz Josef, traditionally he is
> the legal, official father of Jesus for his contemporaries. Since then
> millions of Christians were baptized with his name. Of course this
> Josef was a Jew, and got his name in turn probably after Joseif, the
> son of the patriarch Jacob.
>
> Franz Josef is just another part of this chain of names.
>
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 8:39 AM, teller <teller_at_free.fr> wrote:
>> oh !
>> josefine ?
>> it sounds like a tribute to emperor franz-josef ?
>>
>> thanks for this answer
>>
>> Patrick
>>
>> On 31/08/2015 22:15, Berti Glaubach wrote:
>>> Pepi was, and is still all over Austria, the short version of Josef or
>>> Josefine.
>>> [Berti Glaubach]
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 3:48 PM, teller <teller_at_free.fr> wrote:
>>>> dear all
>>>> can somebody answer the following question concerning a (murdered by the
>>>> nazis) relative ?
>>>> was "pepi" a first name or a nickname ?
>>>> thanks in advance
>>>>
>>>> Patrick Teller
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