!!!Firmian, Leopold Anton Graf

b. Munich (Germany), May 27, 1679, 
d. Salzburg, Oct. 22, 1744, bishop. 1718 Bishop of Lavant, 1724 Bishop 
of Seckau, 1727 Bishop of Laibach and, in the same year, Archbishop of 
Salzburg. In 1731 he enacted the emigration decree, which led to the 
expulsion of 23,000 evangelical Protestants. J. W. v. Goethe 
referred to this event in "Hermann und Dorothea".



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