Leopold Heyperger

{{Short description|16th-century Viennese burgher}}

File:Leopold Heyperger on Medal.jpgLeopold Heyperger was a 16th-century Viennese burgher who was the Burggrave of Hofburg Palace from 1547 to 1560,{{Cite web|url=https://www.burghauptmannschaft.at/uploads/liste_der_verwaltungsleiter_der_hofburg_in_wien.pdf|title=List of administrative heads of the Hofburg in Vienna|last=|first=|date=|website=Official Website Of The Hofburg Palace.|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}} as well as Ferdinand I's treasurer.{{Cite web|url=https://www.khm.at/en/visit/collections/coin-collection/history-of-the-collection/|title=History of the collection|website=www.khm.at|language=en|access-date=2020-01-26}} He was personally appointed to be the administrator of the imperial Kunstkammer in Hofburg Palace.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CmCUFpA9-e0C&q=leopold+heyperger&pg=PA28|title=The Quest for Compromise: Peacemakers in Counter-Reformation Vienna|last=Louthan|first=Howard|author1-link=Howard Louthan|date=2006-06-22|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-02712-0|language=en}} He is best known for organizing a vast collection of ancient Roman coins for the Kunstkammer in 1547.{{Cite web|url=https://www.khm.at/en/visit/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/1998/the-money-of-the-celts/the-history-of-the-vienna-numismatic-collection/|title=The History of the Vienna Numismatic Collection|website=www.khm.at|language=en|access-date=2020-01-26}}{{Cite book |last=Spener |first=Philipp Jacob |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o98-AAAAcAAJ&q=heyperger&pg=RA3-PA83 |title=Theatrum nobilitatis Europeae |date=1668 |publisher=Vogelius |language=la}}