Társadalomtörténeti múdszerek és forrástípusok. Salgótarján, 1986. szeptember 28-30. - Rendi társadalom, polgári társadalom 1. - Adatok, források és tanulmányok a Nógrád Megyei Levéltárból 15. (Salgótarján, 1987)
Angol nyelvi összefoglalók (English Summaries)
540 basis of the register of birth, marriage, and death as follows: the forty-one year old bachelor, György Steindl got married to the widowed Terézia Horváth, the third wife of the late tinsmith Péter Eichner in Keszthely in 1811 After their childless marriage, they passed away almost in the very day of 1827. The two testaments and the lists of the legatees permit us to recontruct precisely the economic and social relationships and the family connections of the Steindls. The protocol of the public auction of the estates gives the remarkable insight about the structure and size of the property and the characteristic material culture of the immigrant German burghers, naturalized in Keszthely during the second part of the eighteenth century, which entirely differed not only from the peasantry's but from the native Hungarian craftsmen's. After the comparative analysis of hundred twenty-nine buyers in the public auction of the estates and the list of the taxpayers in 1826-27, Dr. Horváth outlines the social structure of the communities of the market-town Keszthely according to the ethnic, societal, religious, and occupational identites and affiliations of the inhabitants. ISTVÁN GAJÁRY : The Hupf-Mayerhoffer Family. A Case Study of the Social Regroupment in Eighteenth-century Pest The decay of the Hungarian feudal system as a result of the reforms of Maria Theresa and Joseph II began at the end of the eighteenth century. The transformation of the traditional urban society was one of the main elements of this decay. The formation of the local office-holding aristocracy in the towns appears to be a factor of this process as well. Eighteenth-nineteenth-century history of the Hupf-Mayerhoffer family in Pest is a case in point. The first generation of this family belonged to the leading circle of artisans and they were also respected burghers, sometimes, as the official representant of the urban community of Pest. Later on, certain branches of the Hupf-Mayerhoffer family lived on handicraft industry but others, especially the wealthier families got their livelihood in the state offices; they tended to leave their original occupation for becoming civil servants. The author tries to reconstruct the lineage of the Hupf-Mayerhoffer family and to investigate the occupational structure of the family members by means of the testaments of the inheritances of the deceased family members. Mr. Gajáry examines the distributions of the inheritances and their circulations among the family members as well. The above-mentioned records show that although the properties in possession of the civil servant family members were more significant than the artisans', the preservation and augmentation of these properties were fairly risky. The widows of the deceased males of the family usually lived on the interest of their liquid capital which was lent out, at most, in amount of thousand forints respectively. The urban-based agricultural production as well as the landed property gradually lost their importance in the income of the urban families with the exception of viticulture. At the same time, real estate was coming to form the vital part of the wealth of the family.
