About myself

My name is Dr. Evgeny Shokhenmayer.

Being of Russian-German origin from the South Ural, I am a German citizen.

I have graduated from the Pedagogical State University of Orenburg (Russia) in 2002 with the Diploma of Higher Graduate Education (equivalent of BA+MA) in French, English, Linguistics and Didactics.

Then I have worked as a Teaching Assistant in French and Latin.

In 2004 I have been given a scholarship from the French Republic for my doctoral research in 2005 in both onomastics and textual linguistics (so to say, "name-based text analysis" - the term of mine!). I finished my thesis in 2008, defended in 2009 at the West Paris University Nanterre La Défense (former Paris X) under the supervision of one of the greatest French discourse analysts Monsieur Jean-François Jeandillou.

Then I stayed in Germany and worked as Teacher of Foreign Languages at the High School of Minden (in German "Gymnasium FES Minden") where I taught French, English, Russian and Latin.

Since 2012 I have been Visiting Assistant Professor at the Zhejiang University in Hangzhou (China).

Since 2013 I am Teacher of Foreign Languages at the High School of Lahr, where I teach English and French.

In 2016, I was invited to edit and assit to prepare volumes of Onoma (journal dedicated to onomastics) for publication.

In 2017, I have been nominated as Assistant Secretary and Web Officer at ICOS. This position plays a key role in helping to raise the profile and awareness of the ICOS and onomastics through the implementation and coordination of a range of information, communications and announcing activity. I am responsible for digital content creation and management, and for developing and maintaining the online presence of the Council on its website, intranet and partner websites.

You can find my profile everywhere:

LinkedIn:            link
ICOS:                 link
ResearchGate:    link
Google Scholar: link
Academia EDU: link

e-Onomastics is 5 years old !!!

So my blog, this very blog, is FIVE years old this month! 

I can’t believe it’s been 5 years since I started blogging! 

It was tough to juggle full time work at college but I did it. 

Over that time, the vision for this blog has slightly changed but I am still doing more or less the same.

I am still in a bit of shock about that fact, never would I have ever dreamed that my blog could last this long. 

It’s been five amazing years spent in the company of all of you, wonderful and good-hearted onomasticians, who really keep me going. 

I can’t imagine my life without interacting with you guys whose generosity and research has been essential to me. Thanks to all of you delightful name-fans for bringing out a more confident side of me, with your collective kindness and endless array of support in sharing onomastic news. 

I’m so happy to have reached this milestone in my blogging "career" and hope to continue for as long as I can, as I have been nominated "Web Officer" by ICOS.

More than 200,000 Visitors of e-Onomastics since November, 2012

Hello to all names-driven readers,


I would like to thank you all for your contribution to this e-Onomastics Blog. It is proving to be an exciting success as I have always anticipated it would be. The onomastic subject is dynamic and evolving to say the least.

The e-Onomastic Blog is an informational initiative dedicated to the promotion of one of the most impressive cross- and extra-linguistic branches.

We have published more than 1,200 posts, hundreds of pictures, video and documents (e.g. reports, articles), related to the science on proper names, so that people around the world who regularly view our blog - onomasticians, linguists, philologists, archivists, toponymists, academics, educators, and admirers of onomastic "art" - can have a better understanding of the nature of names and appreciation of various achievements of different names-oriented researchers.

e-Onomastics was also one of the first private blogs in web history, having produced posts exclusively about proper names. We dedicate this blog to all names-centered scholars and amateurs around the world who represent a legion of of the most transverse and interdisciplinary researchers. We are thankful for the tremendous support our onomastic blog has garnered from countless names' fans around the world.

We will not be deterred from our single-minded effort to continue to publish the information about the studies of this phenomenal multidimensional area.

Thank you for your continuing support.

onomastically yours

Dr. Evgeny Shokhenmayer

e-Onomastics on Polish Onomastyka

http://onomastyka.uni.lodz.pl/archives/2187 Thanks a lot to Prof. Artur Gałkowski

Blog onomastyczny e-Onomastics – webmaster Dr. Evgeny Shokhenmayer

25 września 2014

Od ponad roku w sieci internetowej pod adresem http://e-onomastics.blogspot.de można śledzić prężnie działający blog onomastyczny prowadzony przez Dr. Evgeny’ja Shokhenmayera (autora monografii: „Analyse textuelle des noms propres et des unités propriales modifiées: Champs associatifs des noms propres et mécanismes de la compréhension textuelle”,Éditions universitaires européennes 2011)

Link do strony: e-Onomastics – e-Sciences about proper names

Na blogu zamieszczane są na bieżąco informacje z wielu obszarów językowych i tematycznych onomastyki, m.in. pod takimi zakładkami, jak: Home, About me, News, Concepts, Geonomastics, Genomastics, Psychonomastics, Zoonomastics,Names, Heroes of Onomastics, Events, Jobs, Blogs, Articles, Publications, Videos, Websites, Humour, Calendar

Blog zdobywa dobre recenzje i rekomendacje w świecie onomastyki. Jest skarbnicą aktualnej wiedzy onomastycznej w wymiarze globalnym.

Dołączam się do rekomendacji i życzę Autorowi wytrwałości w prowadzeniu tak cennego dla nauk onomastycznych blogu,

Artur Gałkowski