Page "Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor" Paragraph 38

In 1784 Joseph II attempted to make German an official language in Hungary after he had renamed the Burgtheater in Vienna in German National Theatre in 1776.

Ferenc Széchényi responded by convening of a meeting and said there: " We'll see whether his patriotism also passes to the Crown.

" Julius Keglević responded with a letter on German to Joseph II: " I write German, not because of the instruction, Your Grace, but because I have to do with a German citizen.

" The " German citizen " Joseph II let then bring the Holy Crown of Hungary to Vienna, where he gave the keys of the chest in which the Crown was locked to the Crown guards Joseph Keglević and Miklos Nádasdy.

Joseph II refrained from crowning and Ferenc Széchényi pulled out of politics.

The Allgemeines bürgerliches Gesetzbuch also called Josephinisches Gesetzbuch the predecessor of the Allgemeines bürgerliches Gesetzbuch the Civil Code of Austria, which applies to all citizens equally, was published on 1 November 1786 after 10 years work on it since 1776.

§ 1: " Every subject expects from the territorial prince security and protection, so it is the duty of the territorial prince, the rights of subjects to determine clearly and to guide the way of the actions how it is needed by universal and special prosperity.

" It is a clear distinction between the rights of subjects and the duties of the territorial prince, and not vice versa.

Territorial prince ( Landesfürst ) does not mean nationalist prince ( Volksfürst ).

In Hungary was no codified civil code until 1959.

The Crown was brought back to Hungary in 1790, on this occasion the people celebrated a great meeting.

One reason for his resignation to be crowned with the Holy Crown of Hungary might have been, that Alcuin had written in a letter to Charlemagne in 798: " And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.