Peter Collett (writer)
Peter Collett (1767 – 21 April 1823)[1] was a Danish judge and writer.
He was born in Zealand as a brother of Johan and Jonas Collett. He was a rationalist and radical,[2] and he published a long and favorable review of Michael Gottlieb Birckners 1797 book On the Freedom of the Press and its Law, where amongst other things he defended the freedom to call for sedition as well as the right for government officials to profess atheism.[3] The same year he was fired from his position as an assessor in Copenhagen for this.[2]
The editor of Lærde Efterretninger Rasmus Nyerup offered him his position as editor of this magazine, and later he accepted the position as co-editor of the popular journal Minerva. He wrote numerous articles for these journals, many of them overtly critical of the government, as well as translations of texts by the English philosopher Francis Bacon.[4] In 1800 he emigrated to the Danish West Indies.[2]
References
- ^ Alf Collett (1883). En gammel Christiania-slægt. A. Cammermeyer.
- ^ a b c Henriksen, Petter, ed. (2007). "Peter Collett – dansk politisk forfatter". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 3 December 2010.
- ^ H. Arnold Barton, Scandinavia in the Revolutionary Era 1760-1815, University of Minnesota Press, 1986, p.241.
- ^ Thomas Hansen Erslew, Almindeligt Forfatter-Lexicon for Kongeriget Danmark med tilhørende Bilande, vol. 1, 1843, pp. 306-7.
External links
- His article in the Danish Biographical Dictionary, 1. ed., vol. 4, p. 60-61.
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