Soliman, Angelo#
b. around 1721, d. Vienna, Nov. 21, 1796, Black-African personal servant. First entered the service of prince Johann Georg Lobkowitz in Naples around 1732, then of prince Wenzel Liechtenstein around 1755, whom he accompanied to Parma and 1764 to Frankfurt, 1783 Freemason. After his death his body was mummified - as ordered by Emperor Franz II - and exhibited in the gallery of natural history; his mummy was destroyed in the course of the bombardment of Vienna on Oct. 31, 1848.
Literature#
W. A. Bauer, A. S., der hochfuerstliche Mohr, 1922; W. Sauer (ed.), Das afrikanische Wien, 1996.