Metadata: Private Records of Budapest Tradesman Péter Herczog
Collection
- Country:
- Hungary
- Holding institution:
- National Archives of Hungary, National Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
- Postal address:
- Budapest, Bécsi Kapu tér 2-4., 1014
- Phone number:
- +36 1 225 2843
- Web address:
- http://mnl.gov.hu/
- Email:
- info@mnl.gov.hu
- Reference number:
- P 312
- Title:
- Private Records of Budapest Tradesman Péter Herczog
- Title (official language):
- Herczog Péter budapesti nagykereskedő iratai
- Creator/accumulator:
- Herczog, Péter
- Date(s):
- 1886/1904
- Scope and content:
- The collection holds three documents from the archives of the prominent Jewish Herczog family: Emperor Franz Joseph’s letter of ennoblement (litterae nobilitationales) to tradesman Péter Herzog (1838-1914, from 1886 Péter Herzog von Csete) and his children, Mór, Lipót, Irén, Janka and Margit, dated 3 March 1886; Emperor Franz Joseph’s diploma granting Péter Herzog the title of Baron, 1904; Greetings from the Employees of the Bosnian Ammonia Soda Factory (Boszniai Ammóniák Szóda-gyár) on the occasion of Péter Herzog being granted the title of Baron, 1904.
- Archival history:
- The collection was recently relocated to Record Group R 64 (Unit 1. No. 1065/a-c.).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Péter Herzog (1838-1914, from 1886 Péter Herzog von Csete) was a prominent tobacco and cotton merchant, industrialist and art collector. [Source: William O. McCagg: Jewish Nobles and Geniuses in Modern Hungary. 1972.]
- Access points: locations:
- Budapest
- Access points: persons/families:
- Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria, 1830-1916
- Herzog, Mór Lipót 1869-1934
- Subject terms:
- Assimilation, acculturation
- Trade and commerce
- Finding aids:
- No finding aids exist.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives
