page_title: Johann Georg von Lori
section_title: Later career
hierarchical_section_title: Johann Georg von Lori / Life / Later career
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Wandgemälde im Münchener Hofgarten mit Szenen aus der bayerischen Geschichte. „Maximilian Joseph III. stiftet die Akademie der Wissenschaften (1759)“ von Philipp Foltz.
context_page_description: Johann Georg von Lori was a Bavarian high official, lawyer and historian. He was the driving force behind the foundation of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 1759.
context_section_description: In 1752 Lori was appointed to the Mint and Mining College in Munich.
  In the summer of 1755 he made a long trip to the Austrian states and central Germany. He found Prague disappointing, but was impressed by Berlin and Potsdam. In Leipzig he was admitted to the Society of Liberal Arts.
  In 1756 he traveled extensively in Switzerland on official business, returning the next year. He then began to plan the establishment of an academy similar to those he had seen on North Germany, based on the work of the earlier Parnassus boicus society of Munich.
  Lori put great effort into the establishment of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
  On 12 October 1758 he founded the Bayerische Gelehrte Gesellschaft (Bavarian Scholarly Society) in Munich.
  The first president was the Chairman of the Mint and Mining Commission, Sigmund von Haimhausen, who brought the society to the attention of the court and the Elector.
  Within six months the society had 88 members.
  On 28 March 1759 Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria, signed the founding charter, which was confirmed on 25 June 1759.
  The charter specifically mentioned the earlier Bavarian learned society, the Parnassus Boicus, which had published a learned journal until 1740.
  In the new Academy Lori held the important position of secretary until 1761.
  Other founding members were provost Franz Töpsl, Andreas Felix von Oefele and Johann Georg Dominicus von Linprun.
  The Academy was soon the object of attacks from the Jesuits and their allies. 
  On 27 March 1761 Lori was relieved of his position as secretary.
  He was involved with the peace negotiations with Prussia in 1762-63 at the end of the Seven Years' War.
  In 1764 he was a member of the Bavarian delegation to Frankfurt for the imperial election. After his return he was given charge of the public electoral archives.
  In 1768 Lori became a member of the Privy Council and foreign affairs adviser.
  On 23 July 1773 Pope Clement XIV dissolved the Jesuits. Lori was given the job of taking over the Bavarian archives, which he undertook tactfully. In 1776 he was appointed to supervise the Faculty of Law at the University of Ingolstadt. After the Elector Maximilian III Joseph died on 30 December 1777, the Austrians raised claims over territories in Lower Bavaria. Lori was employed in secret investigations and discussions over the claims during the War of the Bavarian Succession (July 1778 – 21 May 1779).
  Lori was dismissed on 12 June 1779, shortly after the signature of the peace treaty.
  Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria relieved him of his office and he retired to Neuburg an der Donau.
  He died there on 23 March 1787 of a chest infection, aged 63.
caption: Maximilian III Joseph founding the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Staatskanzlei in Munich)
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