!!!Pezzl, Johann

b. Mallersdorf (Germany), Nov. 30, 1756, 
d. Vienna, June 9, 1823, author and civil servant. From 1776 in 
Austria, 1776-1780 studied law in Salzburg, then in Zurich, from 1784 
in Vienna; in charge of the library of Prince W. A.  Kaunitz, 
associated with advocates of the Enlightenment in Vienna, friendship 
with A.  Blumauer. From 1785 member of the Masonic lodge "Zum 
Palmbaum", from 1791 civil servant (Cryptography Service). Important 
representative of the Enlightenment in Vienna; it was mainly through 
his journalistic and epic works, his "Sketch of Vienna" (6 booklets, 
1786-1790) and similar works that he became an important Viennese 
topographer and writer on the customs and morals of his time and 
contributed to the development of Austrian national identity. Later 
politically more moderate, which weakened the impact of his writing.

!Further works
Briefe aus dem Noviziat, 4 vols., 1780-1783; Faustin 
oder Das philosoph. Jh., 1783; Vertraute Briefe ueber Katholiken und 
Protestanten, 1787; Abdul Erzerum´s neue persoenl. Briefe, 1787; 
Denkmal auf M. Stoll, 1788; Oe. Biographien, 4 parts., 1790-1792; 
Ulrich von Unkenbach und seine Steckenpferde, 2 vols., 1800/1802. - 
Travelogues and topographical works.

!Literature
W. M. Bauer, Fiktion und Polemik, 1978; L. Bodi, 
Tauwetter in Wien. Zur Prosa der oesterreichischen Aufklaerung 
1781-1795, %%sup 2/%1995.



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