an expanation / interpretation about the name "Ludwig"

[protohistorian]

on page 219 of the Trial of George Chapman, within the birth certificate it has his god father as "Ludwig Zyanski". Might some feelings on the part of Severin be the impetus for the use of the name " Ludwig". Being a familiar name of someone he respected and easy for Englishmen to pronounce?

[Sam Flynn]

Sounds feasible - although Ludwig wasn't all that uncommon a name, and he could have plucked it out of thin (h)air That said, his full alias was "Ludwig Zagowski", which - allowing for misreadings - isn't a million miles from "Ludwig Zyanski".

[protohistorian]

Sounds feasible - although Ludwig wasn't all that uncommon a name, and he could have plucked it out of thin (h)air That said, his full alias was "Ludwig Zagowski", which - allowing for misreadings - isn't a million miles from "Ludwig Zyanski".

i see him using the familiar for everything he can. Respectfully Dave

[Natalie Severn]

i see him using the familiar for everything he can. Respectfully Dave

Yes,and its also possible he enjoyed appropriating such "bits and pieces" of people and places,like trophies.The "George" may hark back to his barber shop on the corner of " George" Yard/Whitechapel High Street,where Martha Tabram was murdered.
We hear he became "George Chapman" and took on his girl friend"s name,"Chapman", just after after Annie Chapman left him.Chapman might possibly even have been of "significance" to him if he ever recalled the other "Annie Chapman" ,the ripper victim.
One wonders what role he was playing when he joined the police cycling club in the 1890"s and regularly went out on cycling trips with a large group of policemen? This again reminds one of Robert Napper,the serial killer who actually once posed as a policeman and used Scotland Yard headed notepaper to write to people.