«Έλληνες» διαθέτες και πρακτικές κληροδοσίας στην Τεργέστη : μια πρώτη προσέγγιση σε σχέση με την περίπτωση της Βιέννης και της Πέστης (19ος αιώνας)
Part of : Μνήμων ; Vol.30, 2009, pages 107-140
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“Greek” Testators and Inheritance Practices in Trieste : A First Approach with Reference to the Cases of Vienna and Pest
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This article refers to practices regarding the social reproduction of the familycapital of the Greek expatriates in Trieste during the 19th century. With thehelp of wills contained in the archival series Archivio Notarile in Archivio diStato di Trieste, I endeavoured to view the strategies employed by testatorsto distribute their fortunes. In particular, through an analysis of the wills ofNikolaos Plastaras (1796), Karlos Pelegrinis (1821), Iakovos Paximadis (1825),Georgios Kartsiotis (1834), Kyriakos Katraros (1834), Nikolaos Papanikolakis (1836), Dimitrios Katraros (1838), Antonios Antonopoulos (1843), Spyridon Sakellarios (1846), Ioannis Skaramagas (1875), and Despoina Giannikesi– Kanelou (1889), I attempt to investigate the relationship between individualand familial ownership within the same ethnic group, the relationship betweenfamily and business and the role of gender in the process of asset management and especially how it reflects on the inheritance system. I also unveil thetestator’s relations to his or her birthplace in Greece through benefactions,before and after the Greek War of Independence.At the same time, a comparative examination of inheritance practices,employed in the 19th century by Greek testators settled in Vienna and Pest,permits some form of qualitative analysis on a broader network of practicesconcerned with asset administration and family capital reproduction.
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