Question: Facts: - death place: nesovice , moravia - death date: 15 may 1772 - birth date: 19 october 1714 - name: joseph leopold freiherr von petrasch - image: josef von petrasch.jpg - birth place: slavonski brod , slavonia -lrb- now in croatia -rrb- Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of joseph von petrasch .
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joseph leopold '' freiherr '' von petrasch -lrb- 19 october 1714 , slavonski brod , slavonia15 may 1772 , nesovice , moravia -rrb- was a soldier , writer and philologist .in 1746 he founded the olomouc-based societas incognitorum , the first enlightenment-inspired learned society in the habsburg territories .as a young man he pursued a military career as adjutant to prince eugene of savoy , accumulating substantial wealth .on 27 march 1750 petrasch was able to buy the lordship of nove zamky -lrb- modern nesovice -rrb- for 85,600 gulden .he relocated here from olomouc in 1758 , which triggered a cultural awakening locally , petrasch himself taking on a succession of theatrical productions .he also established a rich library which included valuable first editions and foreign publications .when he died , his wife inherited a half of a farm in the village of dublitz , and one of his daughters inherited he left four daughters , the eldest of whom , antonia , when she died in 1781 , had become the countess -lrb- '' grafin '' -rrb- von putring .her three younger sisters , karolina of lipowsky , maria anna von petrasch and josepha von hochberg sold nove zamky in 1789 for 100,000 gulden to johann nepomuk wengersky von ungarschitz .