Leopold Ladislaus Pfest

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Leopold Ladislaus Pfest (born November 15, 1769 in Isen near Erding , † October 3, 1816 in Gnigl , Salzburg ) was a German-Austrian writer and Salzburg district judge.

Life

Leopold Ladislaus Pfest was born in 1769 in Isen not far from Erding in Upper Bavaria , where his father was Princely Councilor of Freising and an official of the Burgrain estate . He attended schools in Freising and, after the death of his father, studied theology and then law at the University of Salzburg . At the invitation of the then Salzburg court chancellor Franz Anton Ignaz Freiherr von Kürsinger and the town councilor Loes, he declined to serve in Salzburg. In 1791 he became an accessist at the City Syndicate in Salzburg, a lawyer there in 1793, Mitterschreiber in Neumarkt in 1797 and Oberschreiber in Mattsee in 1798 . During the French occupation, he was in charge of the court in Waging from 1800 to 1801 and that of Saalfelden im Pinzgau from 1802 .

Soon after the change in government, Pfest became administrator of the Neuhaus District Court on January 1, 1804. On February 1, 1804, he also took over the administration of the nursing and regional court in Glaneck and then that of the mountain court in Oberalm. When the Glaneck nursing court was abolished as early as 1805, Pfest was appointed councilor and real nurse in Neuhaus in the Salzburg regional court district. On September 30, 1810, the Electorate of Salzburg came to the Crown of Bavaria and Pfest was now royal Bavarian district judge in Salzburg. When Salzburg fell back to Austria on May 1, 1816, Pfest was promoted to the position of imperial Austrian district judge, but in what capacity he died on October 3, 1816 at the age of almost 47 in Gnigl ​​near Salzburg. He was buried in the local cemetery.

Pfest was a versatile writer and contributor to numerous magazines, for which he provided particularly historical and literary works. For example, he wrote the following articles for the Salzburger Intellektivenblatt:

  • Contribution to the scholarly history of Salzburg about Friedrich Plank , in: Salzburger Intellektivenblatt , 1804, p. 337 ff.
  • Historical news of the Barons von Rehlingen , ibid. 1808, p. 415 ff.
  • Dr. Johann Jakob Hartenkeil , ibid. 1808, p. 558 ff.
  • Contribution to the literature of Salzburg , ibid. 1810, p. 389 ff.

Several articles by Pfest and reviews in Vierthaler's Salzburg literary newspaper can also be found in Graser's archive for public education by church and state and in Hartleben's justice and police mama . As a poet, he published poems (Salzburg 1804) and epigrams (Vienna 1811), in which he modified themes from personal and supra-personal areas, often using motifs from ancient mythology . In the anthology he edited, Die Jahreszeiten, a song reading for friends of nature (Salzburg 1812), he endeavored to portray the German idyllic tradition that emerged in the 18th century with 106 writers from Bürger to Wieland . He also collected table and drinking songs by the Germans (2 vols., Vienna 1811), which made a contribution to the history of sociability in the 18th century with a characteristic selection from the early Enlightenment to Goethe and Schiller . Pfest also published an anthologia epigrammatica latina, e poetis post renatas scientias ad nostra usque tempora claris , of which collection only the first volume (1805) was published. He took an opposing stance towards romanticism .

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personal data
SURNAME Pfest, Leopold Ladislaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1769
PLACE OF BIRTH Isen near Erding
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 1816
Place of death Gnigl , Salzburg