摘要：The present collection attempts to sketch collective portraits of various social groups in nineteenth-century Moravia. The editors were inspired by three prominent publications: "Der Mensch des 19. Jahrhunderts" edited by Ute Frevert und Heinz-Gerhard Haupt, "Der Mensch der Aufklärung" edited by Michel Vovelle and "Der Mensch der Romantik" edited by François Furet. [1] This book, which contains the German resumé "Der Mensch in Mähren des 19. Jahrhunderts", took a methodological track, which happened to be an unintended turn of some studies in the work of Frevert and Haupt. The contributors of the selected volume had to confront collective biographies with individual ones – one or a few representatives of the social group. The four chapters of the volume address the relations of each social group to the process of modernisation and their specific social position. Under headlines like "Vehicles of Modernisation" entrepreneurs, engineers, doctors, lawyers etc. are treated; the chapter "People with Various Relations to Modernity" deals with peasants, servants, innkeepers etc. and under "Representatives of the Pre-modern" nobles, army officers, clergymen etc. are examined. The fourth chapter focuses on the stories of marginal groups of the society for example Roma-Gypsies and criminals.
