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146 ♦  Universities in Imperial Austria, 1848–1918 university produced. This growth strengthened the dominance of Vienna as the training university for young scholars throughout the empire, even if only a portion of them left for academic positions at other universities. In contrast to the widespread assumption that it was a cosmopolitan hub, the University of Vienna was throughout this period still a very local institu- tion in relative terms. In absolute numbers it hosted a plethora of scholars from across the empire and abroad. The high number of nonlocal instructors also had to do with the pyramidal structure and the number of nonlocal graduates, the source of future Privatdozenten. Still, in relative terms, Vienna had the highest percentage of its own graduates among its habilitations (69 percent in the philosophical faculty and 81 percent in the medical faculty; see also table 4).4 The same can be said for the percentage of Vienna’s own Privatdozenten among its professoriat (76 percent in the philosophical faculty and 88 per- cent in the medical faculty), although the proportion is lower the higher one goes up the ladder, dropping to below 50 percent for full professors in the tAble 4 Places of graduation for scholars habilitating at different universities, 1848–1918 Graduated from Habilitating at Vienna (%) Graz (%) Innsbruck (%) Prague (%) Prague: German (%) Medical faculty Vienna 81 4 1 3 4 Graz 24 49 8 0 3 Innsbruck 54 8 35 0 4 Prague 8 0 0 86 n/a Prague: German 10 5 0 6 77 Prague: Czech 1 0 0 16 0 Cracow 10 0 0 1 0 L’viv 5 0 0 3 0 Philosophical faculty Vienna 69 4 3 1 2 Graz 24 53 3 1 0 Innsbruck 20 9 57 0 0 Prague 7 0 0 70 n/a Prague: German 23 6 0 12 40 Prague: Czech 4 0 0 8 0 Cracow 7 0 0 0 0 L’viv 8 0 0 0 0 Note: n/a, not applicable.