!!!Prandstetter, Martin Joseph

b. Vienna, Oct. 5, 1760, 
d. Munkács, Ukraine (then Mukachevo), June 25, 1798, poet. From 
1783 civil servant of the municipal authority in Vienna, 1780-1794 
wrote for the almanac "Wiener Musenalmanach" and for publications of 
the Freemasons; developed an original form of expression in his poetic 
works, which covered a variety of themes ("Winzerlieder", humorous 
poems, ballads with a moral). In the course of the  Jacobin Conspiracy 
was arrested in 1794 and sentenced to 30 years confinement in 
Munkács fortress, where he died a few years later.

!Literature
F. Haderer, M. J. P., doctoral thesis, Vienna 
1967; A. Koerner (ed.), Die Wr. Jakobiner, 1972.



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