Franz von Werner
Franz von Werner , pseudonym Murad Efendi , (born May 30, 1836 in Vienna , † September 12, 1881 in The Hague ) was an Austrian writer and diplomat in the Ottoman service.
Life
Born the son of a Croatian landowner, after completing high school he joined an Austrian cavalry regiment and as an officer in the Turkish army during the Russian-Turkish Crimean War . During this time he converted to Islam .
In 1856, after the third Peace of Paris , Werner switched from the army to politics. As a secretary with special powers , he was entrusted with an extraordinary mission for the affairs of Montenegro and Herzegovina and later became the personal secretary of the Grand Vizier Mehmed Ali Pasha . He received 1,859 special missions to Bucharest , 1860 to Palermo , was in 1864 to the Turkish consul for the Banat with its seat in Temesvár , 1872 Consul General in Venice , 1874 to General in Dresden , 1877 to resident minister at the courts of The Hague and Stockholm and Appointed Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary there in 1880. He died in The Hague in 1881, his widow Henriette died in 1887.
During his stay in Temesvár he had resumed the poetic-literary endeavors that he had cultivated since his early youth. In addition to the poetry collections Klänge aus Osten and Durch Thüringen , tragedies arose with which he was able to achieve some success on German stages; but he also found his audience with comedies . With his Turkish sketches Werner presented his experiences and insights into the political and social conditions of the Ottoman Empire .
progeny
His son Gaston Murad (1867-1936) worked as a lawyer (Dr. jur.) Civil servant in the Imperial and Royal Ministry of National Defense in Vienna and in 1914 in the minister's office. Since 1900 he had been married to the painter and graphic artist Gabriele Michalkowski (1877–1963), Vice-President of the Association of Austrian Women Artists; the two had the children Zdenka (born 1901) and Franz René Murad (born 1903).
Works
- Sounds from the east . Temesvar 1865
- Through Thuringia . (1870)
- Marino Falieri. Tragedy . Leipzig 1871
- Selim III. Tragedy . (1872)
- Ines de Castro. Tragedy (1872).
- Mirabeau. Tragedy (1875).
- Bogadil. Comedy (1874)
- With the flow. Comedy (1874)
- Professor's bridal trip. Comedy (1874)
- A novel. Comedy (1875)
- Through the vase. Comedy (1875).
- Turkish sketches . Leipzig 1878 (2 vol.)
- East and West. Poems . Oldenburg 1881
- Nassreddin Chodja, an Ottoman Eulenspiegel (1880)
- Ballads and Pictures (1885)
- Dramatic works . Leipzig 1881 (3 vol.)
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Werner, Franz von (poet) . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 55th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1887, pp. 49–51 ( digitized version ).
- Ludwig Fränkel: Werner, Franz von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 42, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1897, pp. 44-48.
- Caroline Herfert: 'German poet and Turkish diplomat': Murad Efendi, Ottoman consul in Temeswar, and the tragedy 'Selim the Third'. In: Michael Hüttler , Hans Ernst Weidinger (eds.): Ottoman Empire and European Theater I: The Age of Mozart and Selim III (1756–1808). Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-99012-065-1 , pp. 795–820.
Web links
- Literature by and about Franz von Werner in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Gabriele Murad-Michalkowski in the database Women in Motion 1848–1938 of the Austrian National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Werner, Franz von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Efendi, Murad |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer, diplomat of the Ottoman Empire |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 30, 1836 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 12, 1881 |
| Place of death | The hague |