!!!Riedel, Andreas Freiherr von

Riedel, Baron (from 1792) Andreas von, b. Vienna, Sept. 12, 1748, 
d. Paris (France), Feb. 15, 1837, officer, Jacobin. 1764-1770 attended 
the Theresianische Militaerakademie (military academy) in Wiener 
Neustadt, became land surveyor and 1779-1790 mathematics teacher to 
the children of grand duke Peter Leopold (later to become emperor 
Leopold II) in Florence; R. formulated a draft for a constitution 
(a people´s council with 800 members), wrote and distributed a 
pamphlet "Aufruf an alle Deutschen zu einem antiaristokratischen 
Freiheitsbund". 1794 arrested as a political criminal, sentenced to 
imprisonment in the fortress of Kufstein, 1796 in Graz and 1797 in 
Munkács. 1806 transferred to the Minorite monastery in Brno 
from where he escaped and fled to France in 1809.

!Literature
A. Koerner, A. R., in: Jahrbuch 
d. Vereins fuer Geschichte der Stadt Wien 27, 1971; A. Koerner, 
A. R., in: H. Reinalter (ed.), Jakobiner in Mitteleuropa, 1977; 
OeBL.



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