!!!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.



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