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148 ♦  Universities in Imperial Austria, 1848–1918 in Innsbruck (see table 4). The exception is Prague, whose own graduates made up a high number of the Privatdozenten teaching there because of its traditionally strong medical faculty. Further, scholars infrequently returned to the province or city in which they had been born; indeed, any return would not have been seen as providing a career boost. Mobility between graduation and habilitation had no significant influence on whether scholars achieved professorial positions in either a faculty or a university.5 In absolute numbers, however, moving to a different university be- fore habilitating was rare, except that the Cracow and L’viv universities attracted a large number of graduates from beyond the monarchy who subsequently habilitated there (see table 4). The trend of remaining at the university where one had graduated had, of course, financial and tAble 5 Percentage of own offspring among the professorship, 1848–1918 University Degree or position gained at the university Medical faculty Philosophical faculty Associate professor (%) Full professor (%) Associate professor (%) Full professor (%) Vienna PhD 81 71 67 45 Privatdozent 86 65 82 46 Without habilitation 7 7 7 10 Graz PhD 26 12 21 10 Privatdozent 50 17 29 15 Without habilitation 13 n/a 11 2 Innsbruck PhD 19 6 27 21 Privatdozent 24 6 39 23 Without habilitation 6 4 5 27 Prague: German PhD 73 35 27 9 Privatdozent 75 30 50 17 Without habilitation n/a n/a 0 9 Cracow PhD 75 45 26 31 Privatdozent 84 47 51 31 Without habilitation 13 37 23 33 L’viv PhD 43 10 22 15 Privatdozent 43 10 40 21 Without habilitation n/a 15 25 45 Note: The categories are nonexclusive. That is, if a scholar graduated from Vienna and then worked as a Privatdozent there, he is included in both percentages. Also, several uni- versities are omitted owing to special conditions that make their situation not comparable to the others. n/a, not applicable.