Joseph von Petrasch
Military Person
1714 – 1772
Who was Joseph von Petrasch?
Joseph Leopold Freiherr von Petrasch was a soldier, writer and philologist. He founded in 1746 the Olomouc-based Societas incognitorum, the first Enlightenment-inspired learned society in the Hapsburg territories.
As a young man he pursued a military career as adjutant to Prince Eugene of Savoy, accumulating substantial wealth. On 27 March 1750 Petrasch was able to buy the lordship of Nové Zámky for 85,600 Gulden. He relocated here from Olomouc in 1758, which triggered a cultural awakening locally, Petrasch himself taking on a succession of theatrical productions. He also established a rich library which included valuable first editions and foreign publications.
He left four daughters, the eldest of whom, Antonia, when she died in 1781, had become the Countess von Pütring. Her three younger sisters, Karolina of Lipowsky, Maria Anna von Petrasch and Josepha von Hochberg sold Nové Zámky in 1789 for 100,000 Gulden to Johann Nepomuk Wengerský von Ungarschitz.
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