Original scientific paper
The first census of craftsmen and traders (after Croatian-Hungarian Settlement) in town Koprivnica and Koprivnica district in 1890
Mira Kolar-Dimitrijević
orcid.org/0000-0002-6050-5700
; Full Professor (retired)
Elizabeta Wagner
orcid.org/0000-0003-0090-9364
; Zagreb
Abstract
In the historiography of Croatia the least researched changes in the second half of the 19th century were changes in the field of economy, especially those related to craftsmen and merchants who, by replacing guilds, played a key role in the development of the economy within modernization. Namely, after the abolition of Varaždin generalate and with the abolition of guilds, the non-agricultural economy fell into crisis and it took a long time for the work of craftsmen and traders to adapt to the needs of the population that fell under Banska, ie civil Croatia, experiencing many difficulties related to the beginning of a business activity. A few years after the restructuring of the economy and within the framework of the Croatian-Hungarian Settlement, chaos reigned in the area and a list of craftsmen and traders made in 1890 under the title the Address book of craft and business world in Croatia complied by the order of Ban Khuen Héderváry was published in order to prove that in the Zagreb Chamber of Commerce there are enough craftsmen and merchants and that the industry of these areas, to which industrial goods were delivered from Hungary and Austria, should not be further developed. The address book was printed in a very small number of copies. As the first and the only list with the names of businessmen, this Address book is important to us and has not been used in historiography so far. In this paper we present data for the Koprivnica district, which, in addition to the city of Koprivnica, included six administrative municipalities where 656 craftsmen and 142 traders lived and worked. This work is part of a trilogy about craftsmen and merchants of central Podravina in 1890.
Keywords
Koprivnica; district of Koprivnica; Craftmen; tradesmen; Address book of craftsmen and tradesmen
Hrčak ID:
248857
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Publication date:
1.12.2020.
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