Joseph Anton von Petzek

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Joseph Anton Petzek , from 1800 von Petzek (born January 6, 1744 in Gabersdorf , Bohemia , † July 19, 1804 in Vienna ) was an Austrian legal scholar and author. He taught at the Universities of Freiburg and Vienna.

Live and act

Petzek was a son of the Gabersdorf mill leaseholder Anton Petzek and his wife Elisabeth, nee Rose, from Goldenöls ; he had a twin brother, Tobias Caspar . With the support of sponsors, the miller's son, who came from a poor background, was able to study law at the universities of Olomouc and Prague . After completing his studies, he devoted himself to teaching.

In 1778 Petzek was appointed to the chair for canon law at the University of Freiburg . He also taught Austrian private law for ten years in Freiburg and also held the position of book censor for Upper Austria for 15 years without pay . In 1791 Petzek was appointed to the Imperial and Royal Appeal Council.

When, during the First Coalition War , Archduke Karl's army corps , who only mentioned Marshal Saint-Cyr's division in Breisgau , stood in front of Kehl fortress in October 1796 , Petzek learned that the main French army under General Moreau was moving into the area and intended to encircle and capture the Austrian corps in front of Kehl. Petzek warned Archduke Karl of the danger via a courier. He then pulled the Nauendorf , Latour and Fröhlich corps together and was able to surprise the French before their planned attack and drive them out of the Breisgau.

After Petzek's share in the victory became publicly known, he no longer felt safe in Freiburg, as new incursions by the French were to be expected. However, his transfer request was initially disregarded. When the French invaded Breisgau again in 1799, Petzek fled Freiburg without his family. In 1800 he was transferred to the chair for canon law at the University of Vienna , and Josef Anton Sauter succeeded him in Freiburg . Emperor Franz II raised Petzek to hereditary nobility on September 12, 1800.

coat of arms

As a coat of arms, Petzek carried a shield divided across gold and blue. The upper golden field shows an outspread black two-headed Austrian eagle ; in the lower blue field is the Trautenauer Lindwurm - a four-footed dragon with a twisted spiked tail lying on a green meadow. On the shield rests a crowned tournament helmet turned to the right, on the crown of which an open black eagle flight rises. The helmet covers are black on the right, blue on the left, and coated with gold on both sides.

Works

  • Dissertatio de modo causas religionem concernentes inter Catholicos et Protestantes controversas secundum leges Jur.Publ. Ecclesiastici Germaniae finiendi Freiburg 1778
  • Synopsis jurium communium ad titulos in alphabeti ordinem redactos accommodata, inque compendium jura discentium jure consultorum ac judicum luci publicae exposita , Freiburg 1781
  • Dissertatio de potestate ecclesiae in statuendis matrimonii impedimentis , Freiburg 1783
  • Letter to the Freimüthigen, a society in Freyburg im Breisgau , Tübingen 1784
  • Vindiciae Dissertationis de potestate ecclesiae in statuendis matrimonii impedimentis Ao. 1783 editae contra binam dissertationem canonicam Argentoratensem , Freiburg 1787
  • Investigation of whether the church indulgence is a relaxation of the divine punishment and whether its effect extends to the souls of the deceased , Freiburg 1788
  • Principles of private law in front of Austria , 3 vol., Freiburg 1792–1794
  • Systematic-chronological order of all laws and supreme ordinances that were enacted from the earliest times up to 1794 for the western Austrian provinces and still exist , 5 vols., Freiburg 1794–1797 (vols. 3–5 under the title systematic-chronological Collection of the political-spiritual laws that were enacted for the western Austrian provinces from the earliest times up to 1795 )
  • Catalog of books banned in Austria from 1783 to 1794 , Freiburg 1794

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Gottfried Sommer , Franz Xaver Maximilian Zippe: The Kingdom of Böhmen. Statistically and topographically presented, vol. 4 Königgrätzer Kreis , Prague 1836, p. 135
  2. ↑ Riesengebirgsheimat issue 1/1969 p. 13
personal data
SURNAME Petzek, Joseph Anton von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petzek, Joseph Anton; Petzek, Iosephi Antonii
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian legal scholar and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1744
PLACE OF BIRTH Gabersdorf
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1804
Place of death Vienna