Johann Philipp Palm 2226566 225381451 2008-07-13T11:22:36Z TwoMightyGods 7271133 Removed category "Booksellers (people)"; Quick-adding category "German booksellers" (using [[WP:HOTCAT|HotCat]]) '''Johann Philipp Palm''' ([[17 November]], [[1768]]–[[26 August]], [[1806]]) was a [[German states|German]] bookseller executed during the [[Napoleonic Wars]]. He was born at [[Schorndorf]], in [[Württemberg]]. Having been apprenticed to his uncle, the publisher [[Johann Jakob Palm]] (1750–1826), in [[Erlangen]], he married the daughter of the bookseller Stein in [[Nuremberg]], and in the course of time became proprietor of his father-in-law's business. In the spring of 1806, the firm of Stein sent to the bookselling establishment of Stage in [[Augsburg]] a pamphlet (presumably written by [[Philipp Christian Yelin]] in [[Ansbach]]) entitled ''Deutschland in seiner tiefen Erniedrigung'' ("Germany in her deep humiliation"), which strongly attacked [[Napoleon I of France|Napoleon]] and the behaviour of the [[First French Empire|French]] troops in [[Bavaria]]. On learning of the violent attack made upon his régime and failing to discover the actual author, Napoleon had Palm arrested and handed over to a military commission at [[Braunau am Inn|Braunau]] on the Bavarian-[[Austrian Empire|Austrian]] frontier, with peremptory instructions to try the prisoner and execute him within twenty-four hours. Palm was denied the right of defence, and after a [[mock trial]] on [[25 August]] [[1806]], he was shot the following day. A life-size bronze statue was erected to his memory in Braunau in 1866, and on the centenary of his death, numerous patriotic meetings were held in Bavaria. It was to Palm that the poet [[Thomas Campbell]] was referring when he gave his famous (and possibly apocryphal) toast to [[Napoleon]] at a literary dinner. When this caused uproar, he admitted that Napoleon was a tyrant and an enemy of their country, "But gentlemen! He once shot a publisher." ==References== *{{1911}} {{BD|1768|1806|Palm, Johann Philipp}} [[Category:German people of the Napoleonic Wars]] [[Category:History of Bavaria]] [[Category:People from the Duchy of Württemberg]] [[Category:People from Braunau am Inn]] [[Category:French executions]] [[Category:German booksellers]] [[de:Johann Philipp Palm]] [[et:Johann Philipp Palm]] [[fr:Johann Philipp Palm]]