Almási Balogh Elemér és érdi Krausz Simon karriertörténete

Absztrakt

We are familiar with Elemér Balogh’s and Simon Krausz’ recollections of the class graduating in 1888/89 at the Budapest Business College, although only one of them mentions academic studies explicitly. The academic registers found in the Budapest Archive indicate not only the place and the date of birth, but also the denomination and the current place of residence, along with the father’s „civil employment”. On the scale of one class, facts concerning the then prevailing employment of parents can be recollected from denominational registers, at least what regards individuals born in Budapest. The certification-books of the academic final examination (graduation) are also available, and their fair copies contain facts of prior schooling. The jubilee memorial volumes of the Business College were published in book-form, that make the former student’s „present standing” — that is, the first decades of his career — appear in two different temporal cross-sections (Bricht 1896, Szuppán 1907). My case study, by comparing statistical and narrative sources, inquires into some general questions of the dynamics of intra- and intergenerational mobility research. The study interprets on the example of the 1888/89 student year the opportunities of becoming part of the economic elite.