Palm

Palm, JOHANN PHILIPP, a bookseller of Nuremberg, who has acquired historic celebrity as a victim of Napoleonic tyranny in Germany, was born at Schorndorf in 1768. In the spring of 1806 a pamphlet entitled Deutschland in seiner tiefsten Erniedrigung (Germany in its Deepest Humiliation), which contained some bitter tirants concerning Napoleon and the conduct of the French troops in Bavaria, was sent by his firm to a bookseller in Augsburg in the ordinary course of trade. The book fell into the hands of Napoleon's officers; they made the emperor acquainted with it. He ordered Palm, as the publisher, to be arrested, tried him by court-martial, and shot him at Braunau, 26th August 1806. This murder greatly incensed the German people against the French.