Franz von Werner

Franz von Werner, pseudonym Murad Efendi (* May 30, 1836 in Vienna, † September 12th 1881 in The Hague) was an Austrian writer and diplomat in Ottoman service.

Life

Born the son of a Croatian landowner, he resigned after completed secondary school studies in an Austrian cavalry regiment, and during the Russo- Turkish Crimean War as an officer in the Turkish army. During this time he converted to Islam.

1856, after the third Paris Peace, Werner joined the army in politics. As secretary with special powers, he was entrusted with a special mission for the Affairs of Montenegro and the Herzegovina, and later became personal secretary to the Grand Vizier Mehmed Ali Pasha. He received 1859 special missions to Bucharest, in 1860, Palermo, 1864 to the Turkish Consul for the Banat with its seat in Temesvár, 1872 Consul General in Venice, 1874 Consul General in Dresden, 1877 to minister resident at the court of The Hague and Stockholm and 1880 local Minister Plenipotentiary and envoy Extraordinary appointed. He died in 1881 in The Hague, his widow Henriette died in 1887.

During his stay in Temesvár he had received his early youth tended poetic- literary aspirations again. In addition to poetry collections sounds from East and by Thuringia now also emerged tragedies with which he was able to achieve some success on the German stage; but also with comedies he found his audience. With its Turkish sketches Werner presented his experience and knowledge of the political and social conditions of the Ottoman Empire.

Progeny

His son Gaston Murad (1867-1936) was a lawyer ( Dr. jur. ) Official in the kk Ministry of Defence in Vienna in 1914 and worked in the Minister's office. He was since 1900 with the painter and artist Gabriele Michalkowski ( 1877-1963 ), Vice- President of the Association of Visual Artists of Austria, married; the two had children Zdenka ( b. 1901 ) and Franz René Murad (born 1903).

Works

  • Sounds from the east. Timisoara 1865
  • By Thuringia. (1870 )
  • Marino Faliero. Tragedy. Leipzig 1871
  • Selim III. Tragedy. (1872 )
  • Ines de Castro. Tragedy (1872 ).
  • Mirabeau. Tragedy (1875 ).
  • Bogadil. Comedy (1874 )
  • Go with the flow. Comedy (1874 )
  • Professor Brautfahrt. Comedy (1874 )
  • A novel. Comedy (1875 )
  • Through the vase. Comedy (1875 ).
  • Turkish sketches. Leipzig 1878 ( 2 vols )
  • East and West. Poems. Oldenburg 1881
  • Nassreddin Chodja, an Ottoman Jester (1880 )
  • Ballads and pictures (1885 )
  • Dramatic works. Leipzig 1881 ( 3 vols )
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