This
project based on an analysis of a database
of the Viennese Leopoldstadt 1857 which is part of the Vienna
Database on European Family History.
The
"Vienna
Database on European Family History" is a collection of census
lists of various European villages, markets and cities from 17th - 20th century
at the Department of Economic and Social History of the University of Vienna.
This database was developed in a series of projects of the Department of Economic
and Social History of the University of Vienna, which were directed by Michael Mitterauer in the time from 1974 to 1984. Peter Schmidtbauer
recorded the Leopoldstadt data (the 47 houses were located at the "Donaukanal"
and the neighboring streets of the 2nd district of Vienna) from the national
Census
of the year 1857 (Viennese city archives, Konskriptionsamt/Volkszählung
1857 /3.Reihe). In the last years the sample was supplemented and corrected.
The file cover the following information about 4363 individuals: House number,
flat number, household position, sex, family status, age, kinship, occupation,
origin, parentage, illegitimacy, step family, religion.
Source:
Vienna Database on European Family History (example)
Data
base:
Data in SPSS portable format (for the import in SPSS independent of the OS)
Data in dbf format (for the import in various database systems)
Publications:
Die 'jüdische Lebenswelt' in der Wiener Leopoldstadt und ihre gewerbliche Infrastruktur, in: History & Computing. Newsletter 02, Vienna 1992, 6-11.
Wiener Handwerker und Antisemitismus im 19. Jahrhundert, in: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, Vol. 3.4 1992, 555-562.
Jüdische Handwerker und ihr sozialer Hintergrund in Wien während des Liberalismus, in: Aschkenas. Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur der Juden Vol. 4/2 1994, 337-363.
Social Structure of the Jewish Quarter in Vienna during the Liberal Era, in: The History of the Family: An International Quarterly (in print).
For
all questions and suggestions please contact
Heinz Berger.