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Joseph von Sonnenfels

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influence on Austrian history

  • Austria
    In Austria: Conflicts with revolutionary France, 1790–1805

    …Leopold adopted a proposal of Joseph von Sonnenfels, an official often considered the leading enlightened political theorist in the monarchy, to make the police a service institution rather than an instrument of control. He put them in charge of local health measures and authorized them to settle minor disputes so…

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