Folia historica 23/2

Peterdi Vera: Egy polgárcsalád élete és otthona a Belvárosban és az arisztokrata negyedben a két háború között

PETERDI Vera 1993: A nagyvárosi háziasszony birodalma. Kiállítási vezető, LTM. Szerk.: DEME Péter. RÉV Ilona 1983: Építészet és enteriőr a magyar századfordulón Budapest Schematismus für das Kaiserliche und königliche Heer und für die kaiserliche und königliche Kriegsmarine 1910: Bécs (1903-1910. évi kiadások). SZEKFÜ Gyula 1934: Három nemzedék és ami utána következik Budapest TARR László 1984: A régi Váci utca regényes krónikája Budapest TÓTH Zoltán „A rendi norma és a »keresztény polgárisodás».Társadalomtörténeti esszé" {Polgárosodás Magyarországon} Századvég 1991/.2-3., 75-131. VADAS József [1992]: A magyar bútor 100 éve Budapest VÁRKONYI István 1930: Gemperle Károly In: Községi jegyzők zsebnaptára Szerk.: VÁRKONYI István IV. évf. 3-8. VOIT Pál é.n.: Régi magyar otthonok Budapest WEIS István 1930: A mai magyar társadalom Budapest WOHL Janka 1882: Az otthon Budapest ZIMMERMANN, Susan 1996: Gyermeksorsok és gyermekvédelem Budapesten a Monarchia idején Kiállítási katalógus. Műtárgyfotók: Dabasi András, Jaksity László Épiiletfotók: Farkas Árpád, Jaksity László The Life of a Middle Class Family in the Inner City and the Aristocrat Quarter in the Interwar Period Summary By means of various social history sources, the study provides an insight into the life of a civil servant family in Pest between the two world wars, through their characteristics manifested in externals and in virtual elements. This renders it possible to analyse the objects (the interior of the flat, clothing, children's world) as sources on the one hand, and to study the family's mentality through their customs on the other hand. The family's story, lifestyle and housing conditions may be reconstructed on the basis of a hundred-page long memoir, the wcll-documcnted material legacy, verbal information and some available family documents. The self-perception, transmitted by the author of the source, reflects the characteristics of the high-ranking urban civil servants of the upper middle class, completed with individual, family traits. This case study is intended to contribute to the refinement of the social definition of the middle class. Financial advisor Zoltán I lalászfy, the head of the family, was the Doctor of Laws and reserve Lieutenant in the Army. His position ensured him financial independence, which was confirmed by the family legacy, both as social background and as capital. This made it possible for the family with two children to make their living at the upper verge of the urban middle class. They suited the general requirements and criteria defining their social stratum. They lived in a four-room Inner City flat looking onto Váci Street, with two servant's rooms, on the first floor of a long-standing block of flats. The family may be characterised by their high-level material culture and way of handling; their elegant, demanding and fashionable clothing, free of the extremes; their substantial, varied and deliberately healthy nutrition; buying quality goods from reliable, well-tried specialist shops; the emphatically and carc157