Group Portrait of the Galician Oil Entrepreneurs

When presenting the careers of entrepreneurs operating on Polish soil at turn 19th and 20th centuries, researchers usually focus individuals in most industrialised areas, especially Kingdom Poland. Much less attention has been paid to successful Galicia. Studies Galician entrepreneurship have mainly taken form biographical entries encyclopaedias lexicons Biographical Dictionary. These are profiles individual business leaders Austrian partition, while far fewer works deal with issue as a group, despite fact that there many sources for such research. This article is an attempt create group portrait number oil who played exceptional role economic, social, political life