Leopold Heyperger

Burggrave Leopold von Heyperger was a 16th century Viennese noble who was the Burggrave (Governor) of Hofburg Palace from 1547 to 1560.[1] Along with being the Governor of Hofburg Palace, Leopold was Ferdinand I's treasurer[2] and was personally appointed to be the administrator of the imperial Kunstkammer in Hofburg Palace.[3] He is best known for organizing a vast collection of ancient Roman coins for the Kunstkammer in 1547.[4]

Bust of Leopold Heyperger on a coin from the Hofburg Palace (c. 1550)
Heraldic achievement granted to Leopold. Draw by Augustin Hirschvogel.Two high mountains symbolizing the families last name: Heyperger, Hey or Hay meaning high and perger or berg meaning mountain or mountaineer.[5]

Leopold was born in 1504 in Vienna to the noble Heyperger Family. He was the son of Mathaus II, Ritter von Heyperger and Anna Barthin. In his mid-20s, he married Elisabeth Fernberger in Vienna and was made an official part of the higher aristocracy. He had three children, Matthew III who died at a young age, Karl the only surviving male heir who inherited his father's large estate, and his daughter Martha. Leopold died in Vienna in 1564.[6][7]

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Sources
  1. ""List of administrative heads of the Hofburg in Vienna"" (PDF). Official Website Of The Hofburg Palace.
  2. "History of the collection". www.khm.at. Retrieved 2020-01-26.
  3. Louthan, Howard (2006-06-22). The Quest for Compromise: Peacemakers in Counter-Reformation Vienna. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-02712-0.
  4. "The History of the Vienna Numismatic Collection". www.khm.at. Retrieved 2020-01-26.
  5. ""List of administrative heads of the Hofburg in Vienna"" (PDF). Official Website Of The Hofburg Palace.
  6. Bergmann, Joseph (1844). Medaillen auf berühmte und ausgezeichnete Männer des oesterreichischen Kaiserstaates vom XVI. bis zum XIX. Jahrhunderte (in German). Tendler & Schaefer.
  7. Spener, Philipp Jacob (1668). Theatrum nobilitatis Europeae (in Latin). Vogelius.
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