The reasons for more or less well-known people acquire many aliases. The motive may be a purely pragmatic – such as long and not all easily pronounced “Eh? Dson Ara? NUTS do Nasim? NTU” is replaced by a short and easy to remember “Pele.” Continue reading »
Or perhaps a deeply sacred – when, for example, an alchemist and physician Theophrastus Bombast Aureol Philip von Hohenheim called himself Paracelsus, to use the invisible spiritual patronage of a famous predecessor by occupation, physician and philosopher Celsius.
External same reason, to give someone a certain nickname, can be reduced to such categories: 1) The Descent of Man (nationality, place of birth or previous residence), and 2) his profession,