Kauno magistrato raštininko karjeros pėdsakais: Motiejus Požerskis (Požėra) (1769–1813)
In the Footsteps of Motiejus Požerskis (Požėra): A Magistrate Officer Biography (1769–1813)

Summary/Abstract: Modern theories of social change and social – political structuration have usually looked to the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as the starting point for the formation of the modern society without taking into account roles of individual with lower social status. This article addresses central problem of the linkage between human action and social structure (townsmen estate, burghers’ elites and state and urban institutions). The historical research is based on Kaunas city case in the end eighteenth and beginning of nineteenth centuries. The article first addresses the political context of transformations and their main features. Secondly, it studies the social and political action of city elected officer and lawyer. (pol. pisarz miasta,magistrata, rus. майстратовый писарь) Motiejus Požerskis (Požėra; pol. Pożerski) in social and political fields.

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