Oh, the names, oh manners!
Many of you have read the novel Danielle Defoe "Robinson Crusoe." Here's how to choose the name took his friend to the hero of this novel. "First of all, I announced that his name would be" Friday ", as the day of the week I saved his life"-is so simple and unpretentious decision was made famous Robinson, having met on a desert island devoted servant and friend. What is good life on uninhabited islands, is the lack of all kinds of conventions, including the choice of names.
If there had been our Robinson in Germany today, he would pretty have the hell of a lot of trouble, made thresholds and urban courts and trying to write down the metric for a friend of the island of that name.
Many German parents would sing their sad songs about how they overcame bureaucratic barriers, giving "out of the ordinary" names to their infants.
A few a few years, as Mr. Adam Laubinger and his wife called his son, Leonardo da Vinci. In the boy's birth certificate is recorded as Leonardo. That's all. The point. The prefix "da Vinci" canceled City Court. The Regional Court confirmed this decision. Third instance - the Higher Regional Court upheld the decision in force. Dispute over the name has already cost the stubborn dad is not in a thousand marks. But that's not the end, and antiquities dealer, Mr. Laubinger again be spending on legal costs and lawyers, the name "Leonardo da Vinci" and engaged in federal court.
An avid fan of all the arts, Mr. Laubinger, responding to the biblical name Adam, does not lose hope: "In recent years, courts increasingly agree with unusual names. I think the point we still win. "