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Leopold Anton Freiherr von Firmian or Leopold Anton Eleutherius von Firmian (Munich
Munich

Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Northern Limestone Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg....
, 11 March 1679 – Salzburg
Salzburg

is the List of cities and towns in Austria#List of cities and towns by population size in Austria and the capital city of the states of Austria of Salzburg ....
, 22 October 1744) was a Catholic Prince Archbishop of Salzburg
Archbishopric of Salzburg

The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an Prince-Bishop of the Holy Roman Empire, roughly consisting of the present-day state of Salzburg in Austria....
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He was born,on his father's side, to the aristocratic family of the Tyrol
Tyrol

Tyrol is a region in Western Central Europe, which included the present day States of Austria of Tyrol , the Regions of Italy Trentino-Alto Adige/S?dtirol and three Comunes of the Veneto Regions of Italy ....
, also known as Count Firmian, by virtue of being the son of the Contessa Maria Viktoria von Thun and the imperial envoy and Baron of Firmian, Franz William von Firmian. He was the uncle of cardinal Leopold Ernst von Firmian
Leopold Ernst von Firmian

Leopold Ernst von Firmian was an Austrian bishop and Cardinal .He was bishop of Seckau from 1739 to 1763, campaigning against Protestantism....
, also prince-bishop of Passau
Passau

Passau is a town in Lower Bavaria, Germany, known also as the Dreifl?ssestadt , because the Danube is joined there by the Inn River from the South, and the Ilz coming out of the Bavarian Forest to the North....
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Leopold Anton Freiherr von Firmian or Leopold Anton Eleutherius von Firmian (Munich
Munich

Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Northern Limestone Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg....
, 11 March 1679 – Salzburg
Salzburg

is the List of cities and towns in Austria#List of cities and towns by population size in Austria and the capital city of the states of Austria of Salzburg ....
, 22 October 1744) was a Catholic Prince Archbishop of Salzburg
Archbishopric of Salzburg

The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an Prince-Bishop of the Holy Roman Empire, roughly consisting of the present-day state of Salzburg in Austria....
.

He was born,on his father's side, to the aristocratic family of the Tyrol
Tyrol

Tyrol is a region in Western Central Europe, which included the present day States of Austria of Tyrol , the Regions of Italy Trentino-Alto Adige/S?dtirol and three Comunes of the Veneto Regions of Italy ....
, also known as Count Firmian, by virtue of being the son of the Contessa Maria Viktoria von Thun and the imperial envoy and Baron of Firmian, Franz William von Firmian. He was the uncle of cardinal Leopold Ernst von Firmian
Leopold Ernst von Firmian

Leopold Ernst von Firmian was an Austrian bishop and Cardinal .He was bishop of Seckau from 1739 to 1763, campaigning against Protestantism....
, also prince-bishop of Passau
Passau

Passau is a town in Lower Bavaria, Germany, known also as the Dreifl?ssestadt , because the Danube is joined there by the Inn River from the South, and the Ilz coming out of the Bavarian Forest to the North....
. His nephew, Karl (or Carl or Charles) Joseph Graf Count of Firmian, the Austrian plenipotentiary minister in Milan, was reknown as a patron of the arts, including poets such as Giuseppe Parini
Giuseppe Parini

Giuseppe Parini was an Italy enlightenment satirist and poet of the neoclassicism.Parini was born in Bosisio Parini in Lombardy. His parents, who possessed a small farm on the shore of Lake Pusiano, sent him to Milan, where he studied under the Barnabites in the Academy Arcimboldi, maintaining himself in the meantime by copying manuscri...
, musicians such as Johann Ernst Eberlin
Johann Ernst Eberlin

Johann Ernst Eberlin was a Germany composer and organist whose works bridge the Baroque music and Classical music eras. He was a prolific composer, chiefly of church organ and choir music....
  and painters such as Giambettino Cignaroli
Giambettino Cignaroli

Giambettino Cignaroli was an Italy painter of the Rococo and early Neoclassicism period.He was born and died in Verona. He was a pupil of Santo Prunato and Antonio Balestra and active mostly in the area of the Veneto....
. While Leopold Anton was an early patron of Leopold Mozart
Leopold Mozart

Johann Georg Leopold Mozart was a composer, conductor, teacher, and violinist. He is best known today as the father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and for his violin textbook Versuch einer gr?ndlichen Violinschule....
; the nephew, count Karl Firmian appears to have been one of the patrons for Amadeus Mozart's opera in Milan: Mitridate, Re di Ponto
Mitridate, re di Ponto

Mitridate, re di Ponto , K?chel-Verzeichnis, is an early opera seria in three acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The libretto is by Vittorio Amadeo Cigna-Santi after Giuseppe Parini's Italian translation of Jean Racine....
 circa 1770.

On a darker note, on October 31, 1731, the 214th anniversary of Martin Luther
Martin Luther

Martin Luther was a Germans monk, theology, university professor, priest, father of Protestantism, and Protestant Reformers whose ideas started the Protestant Reformation and changed the course of Western culture....
's nailing of his 95 Theses to the Wittenberg School door, Archbishop Count Leopold Anton von Firmian signed an Edict of Expulsion of Protestants
Salzburg

is the List of cities and towns in Austria#List of cities and towns by population size in Austria and the capital city of the states of Austria of Salzburg ....
 declaring that all Protestants in the bishopric of Salzburg recant their non-Catholic beliefs or be banished within days. To Count Firmian's surprise, over 20 thousand citizens professed Protestant beliefs, and were exiled. He also tried to mediate with the schismatic Manharter
Manharter

Manharter was a politico-religious sect which arose in Tyrol in the first half of the nineteenth century....
 sect of the Tyrol.

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  • Italian wikipedia entry