Karl Maximilian Wilhelm Petermann

Karl Maximilian Wilhelm Petermann (born September 3, 1722 in Nuremberg ; † September 27, 1794 in Bayreuth ) was a German lawyer and fiction writer . In 1793 he received the post of a Prussian government councilor.

Life

Karl Maximilian Wilhelm Petermann was a son of the princely chamber councilor Christian Friedrich Petermann. From 1731 he received his early training in the gymnasium in Hof and from 1735 to 1740 in that of Bayreuth. He studied law in Jena and in 1743, after graduating from university, got a job at the secret archive in Bayreuth. In 1749 he became government secretary. His legal knowledge resulted in his appointment to the judiciary in 1758, court counselor in 1763, real councilor in 1764 and first secretary in 1767. In 1769 he was employed by the Oberberg Department, in 1770 in the police and national economy, in 1771 appointed to the consistorial council and in 1772 as a deputy to the orphan's chamber. In 1774 he was promoted to consistorial vice-president. In 1793 he became a Prussian councilor in Bayreuth, but died the following year at the age of 72.

In his leisure hours Petermann occupied himself a lot with the beautiful sciences and gained fame as a writer through the publication of the weekly essay Experiments in the Works of Good Taste (Bayreuth 1746). He also wrote fables and stories (2 volumes, Coburg 1754-56). He also wrote a number of novels and poems, including Der indifferent (Bayreuth 1773) and Der Milchtopf (Bayreuth 1775). His historical attempt, the series of the burgraves of Nuremberg who emerged from the house of Zollern, then electors and margraves of Brandenburg, up to our times (Bayreuth 1758; 2nd edition Erlangen 1785; 3rd increased edition ibid. 1788) met with much approval . Petermann showed his patriotic sentiments with the small text Das Glück des Vaterlandes under the government of Margrave Friedrich Christian (Bayreuth 1763).

literature

Heinrich Döring : Petermann (Karl Maximilian Petermann) , in: Johann Samuelansch , Johann Gottfried Gruber : (Ed.): General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts , 3rd section, 19th part (1844), p. 70 f.

Remarks

↑ Carl Maximilian Wilhelm Petermann , in: Rolf Straubel: Biographisches Handbuch der Prussischen Verwaltungs- und Judizbeamten 1740-1806 / 15 , Walter de Gruyter, 2009, p. 725.

personal data
SURNAME	Petermann, Karl Maximilian Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH	September 3, 1722
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH	September 27, 1794
Place of death	Bayreuth

[1] Carl Maximilian Wilhelm Petermann , in: Rolf Straubel: Biographisches Handbuch der Prussischen Verwaltungs- und Judizbeamten 1740-1806 / 15 , Walter de Gruyter, 2009, p. 725.