If your name is Beaumont-you must be a geologist! Well, sometimes...: Funny Stories of the so-called 'Nominative determinism'. Historical joyous Vignettes

摘要

Rather an histo rical curiosity, not a too serious subject, is the phenomenon of "nominative det erminism". Are some persons compelled to take up a line of work and career suggested by their surnames. Are names also hold the secret to success. Was Sig mund Freud joyous .. (Freud=joy); was another Austrian neurologist and pharmacologist, (1871- 1953), Alfred Fr. hlich , a happy perso n. (Fr.hlich=happy). Well, let us enjo y the stories of some people whose names became their professions