In general I agree with these rules of thumb. However, I've got my
doubts about declining the names of people who live(d) in the current
era (latter part of the 19th and 20th century). I would use the family
name one was born with as a rule for declination: e.g. Rumphius was born
as Rumph, thus declination is defensible. However, how about naming a
woman with the familyname under which she was born like Sibelius? Would
that be sibelae, sibeliae or sibeliusae? Or a man born in the 20th
century, when familynames were already fixed? In this last scenario
sibeliusi is defensible in my book.
Sincerely, Erick
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