Wolfgang Münzer von Babenberg (1524–1577) was a wealthy nobleman and merchant from Nuremberg, Germany. Famous for a pilgrimage to Jerusalem where he was knighted, his life was defined by his subsequent capture and enslavement in the Ottoman Empire before his dramatic release.While returning from Jerusalem in 1557, he was arrested on false charges and spent about three years as a rowing slave on the galleys of the Sultan of Constantinople.He commissioned a famous, life-sized portrait by the renowned Renaissance painter Nicolas Neufchâtel, which displays his immense wealth, elaborate 16th-century fashion, and his gallant status. This portrait is housed at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum.