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Czernowitz, 1864–1885: pupils of the Oberrealschule

Every pupil named in the annual reports of the Greek-Orthodox Oberrealschule in Czernowitz (gr.-or. Oberrealschule, a secondary school teaching modern languages, mathematics and science) from its first report in 1864/65 to 1884/85: the pupil's class and, as printed, the place where he was born. In these years the school printed every pupil's birthplace, so the lists show families from all over Bukovina, Galicia, Moldavia and beyond. Every name is searchable, and every entry links to its page in the report at the Austrian National Library.

Index from the reports digitised by the Austrian National Library (Austrian Books Online). Images are not republished here: each entry links to its page at the ÖNB.

The reports

One report a year: Jahres-Bericht der griech.-orient. Ober-Realschule in Czernowitz. The list of pupils is near the end, class by class. Until 1866/67 each class is in alphabetical order; from 1871/72 in order of merit (Location), numbered.

Not here: the reports for 1867/68–1870/71 and 1872/73–1873/74, which the ÖNB does not hold; and the years from 1885/86, whose lists print names without the place of birth.

What a line says

• Class I to VII (the school had seven classes), with the division (Abtheilung) A, B, C or D where a class was taught in parallel groups. A pupil usually moves up one class a year; some repeat a year.
• No. — the place in the class list. From 1871/72 the lists are in order of merit, so no. 1 is the best pupil of the class. An asterisk (*) marks a pupil with distinction (Vorzugsschüler).
• Name as printed: surname, then given name, in the German spelling of the day (Moriz, Isak, Wasyl). Titles of nobility (Ritter von, Baron) are given as printed.
• Place of birth as printed, usually with the land: Bukowina, Galizien, Moldau, Rumänien, Bessarabien, Ungarn… A ditto mark („) repeats the line above; the entry shows what it stands for. Where the place is certain, it links to its town page with the surviving registers.
• 1884/85 also lists 25 pupils admitted to a re-examination after the holidays (Wiederholungsprüfung), with the subject and without the place of birth.

Where the pupils were born

Pupils by place of birth, where the place is certain. Each place links to its town page and to its pupils. 576 entries are not linked to a town page: the name fits more than one place (Lemberg with no land printed, Piatra, Krasna), the village is not in the catalogue under that spelling, or no place is printed. Search finds them by the name as printed.

Chernivtsi 782 Botoşani 51 Iaşi 49 Lviv 47 Siret 37 Sadhora 35 Suceava 28 Ivano-Frankivsk 27 Storozhynets 20 Boiany 19 Sniatyn 18 Ternopil 18 Câmpulung Moldovenesc 17 Galaţi 16 Gura Humorului 16 Kolomyia 15 Roman 15 Rădăuți 15 Tysmenytsia 14 Dorohoi 13 Kuty 13 Dubivtsi 13 Vienna 12 Zalishchyky 12 Zastavna 11 Fălticeni 11 Hlyboka 10 Focșani 10 Chisinau 9 Brody 9 Sambir 9 Mihăileni 9 Kitsman 8 Tlumach 8 Velykyy Kuchuriv 8 Tsuren 7 Vyzhnytsya 7 Kraków 7 Pojorâta 7 Pyadykivtsi 7

Town pages: Chernivtsi · Botoşani · Iaşi · Lviv · Siret · Sadhora · Suceava · Ivano-Frankivsk · Storozhynets · Boiany · Sniatyn · Ternopil.

Religion

The lists do not give a pupil's religion, and this index does not guess it: no entry here is marked Jewish or anything else. The school's own statistics count about half of its pupils as Jewish (mosaisch) — 51 % in the report for 1875/76, 49 % in 1881/82. A surname that sounds Jewish proves nothing, and neither does the link to the census.

The same pupil in other years

Each entry is one pupil in one school year. Where the same surname, given name and birthplace appear in consecutive reports, the class rising no faster than the years, and only one such pupil fits, the entry page shows the other years as probably the same pupil. The entries are not merged. A boy whose name or birthplace was printed differently from one year to the next is not joined.

The census link

Many pupils were born in Czernowitz or lived there. Where the Czernowitz census of 1869, 1880 or 1890 has exactly one male person with the same surname, given name and birthplace, born within four years of the year the pupil's class suggests, the entry page links to his census sheet as probably the same person — with his household. Where a census has two such people, no link is given. It is a lead, not proof: check the census sheet.

How it was read

• Twice, independently. Every page was read from the image by two separate machine readings; the ÖNB's own text recognition of the Gothic type served as a third check. They agreed on 89 % of the lines. Every disagreement was settled against the page image.
• Then checked. A random tenth of the lines where the readings agreed was read again from the image: about 0.6 % had an error in the surname or given name, and about 1.5 % in the place of birth. Expect a few such slips in the index; the page image is always the authority.
• Checked against the school's own figures. The number of pupils in each class was compared with the report's own tables. Where they differ, the list itself was re-read and the difference is in the printed report.
• Found a mistake? Use “Report an error” on the entry page.

Search tips

• Sounds like (the default) finds spellings that sound the same by the Daitch–Mokotoff system and keeps only close spellings as results: Katz finds Kac, Kaz, Caț. Other surnames with the same code are listed separately below the results.
• Exact spelling finds only that spelling; Starts with finds every surname that begins with the letters you typed.
• * and ? in a surname: * stands for any letters, ? for one letter. Kat*, *berg, Gr?nberg.
• Accents and alphabets don’t matter: ş = s, ţ = tz, ä = a, ł = l. Records written in Cyrillic are found by their Latin spelling.
• Given name matches the beginning of any given name of the person: Mor finds Moritz, Mordko and Moric.
• Other surnames: a married woman is also found by her maiden name (née, născută, geb.), and anyone by a second surname written with recte, vel, zis or false.
• Town (under “More fields”): any of the town’s names in any language. Collections from one city match only that city.
• Parent, spouse or other: a surname of another person in the same record (a register entry, a family declaration or letter, a family on a list). Use it to find a child by the mother’s maiden name, or a couple.
• A dash (—) in the list of collections means that collection has no such field, so the search was not run there; 0 means it was searched and nothing was found.
• Private: people born in 1926 or later are shown by surname only. Why.

How to cite

Jahres-Bericht der griech.-orient. Ober-Realschule in Czernowitz … für das Schuljahr 18NN/NN, p. N, class N, no. N. Austrian National Library (ÖNB), Austrian Books Online, +Z… (image N). Index: Zeydele (zeydele.com).

The ÖNB marks these scans as free to view and to use for non-commercial purposes (NoC-NC). This index links to them and does not copy them.