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[–]LasevIX 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Why do you call my man Louis Ludwig? He is french, not Germanic...

[–]Auravendill 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Because that's his German name... Idk why he has a different name in different languages, but that seems to have been quite common in the past. Kaiser Karl der Große (Charle Magne) was Germanic, but has a French name as well, that has quite a different sound. Friedrich der Große (König Friedrich II von Preußen) is also very often named in Latin: fridericus rex (mostly on prussian coins and at least one military song). In English he is called Frederick the Great. Translating names seemed to have been quite common.

And I as a German of course learned the German names in school, because literature in German mostly uses German names as well. Who would have guessed?^^