Courland census microdata

I recently finished working on the microdata coded from the 1803–1804 Courland censuses. You can download the database from the Emporion repository.

The database contains information on 3,081 individuals who lived in Courland’s towns in the early nineteenth century. The microdata were extracted from surviving census lists of towns enumerated between 1803 and 1804. This cross-sectional data provides insight into social, demographic, and economic life in the multinational Baltic urban milieu. The original documents are held in the collections of the Herder Institute in Marburg and the Latvian State Historical Archives in Riga.

The publication process was supported by NFDI4Memory Fair Data grant.