What can we learn from Lithuania s very first census of 1790?
Ramunė Šmigelskytė-Stukienė, Orbis Lituaniae2021.07.17 10:00
Social strata in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth s society in 1655. From left: Jew, barber surgeon, painter, butcher, musician, tailor, barmaid, pharmacist, shoemaker, goldsmith, merchant and Armenian / Wikipedia
Modern ideas about population management reached the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the late 18th century, prompting the very first universal census in 1790 to take stock of the realm s subjects.
In the second half of the 18th century, ideas of cameralism and the science of statistics that spread in the Age of Enlightenment had a substantial impact on the changes in the principles of rule in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.