Századok – 2016
2016 / 5. szám - MŰHELY - Tuza Csilla: Állami szolgálat, közszolgálat a 19. század közepén. Egy készülő abszolutizmuskori személyügyi adatbázis
1350 TUZA CSILLA STATE SERVICE, PUBLIC SERVICE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY by Csilla Tuza Summary The working of the state has always been founded upon the services of the literate groups, who played an indispensable role in running the bureaucratic apparatus. With the emergence of the modern state in the Enlightenment era, and the separation of state and church, as well as the different branches of the administration, these social groups were also transformed. It was then that those public servants appeared, who did their work as a profession, in return for pay, and whose position was already dependent on a degree of schooling. In Hungary it was Joseph II who ordered the rating of public officials, an important development for thereafter the career, salary and rewarding of officials was conditioned by their qualification. Qualification forms have survived from all the offices, but these were especially important after the War of Independence in 1848/49, when only such persons were employed who had not been involved in the anti-Habsburg war. In the Hungarian National Archives, the qualification forms from the period of the Bach administration are currently being worked into a database.
