Background
He was the son of Franz von Werner, a Croatian landowner of Austro-German origin, and his wife, the former Eleonore Pfeiffer.
He was the son of Franz von Werner, a Croatian landowner of Austro-German origin, and his wife, the former Eleonore Pfeiffer.
After completing high school he joined an Austrian cavalry regiment. In 1856, after the third Peace of Paris, Werner entered politics. As a secretary with special powers he was dispatched on an extraordinary mission for the Affairs of Montenegro and Herzegovina and was later personal secretary of Grand Vizier Mehmed Emin Aali Pasha.
In 1859 he undertook a special mission to Bucharest, and in 1860 to Palermo.
In 1864 he was the Turkish Consul for the Banat headquartered in Timişoara. During his stay in Timişoara, he returned to the poetic literary aspirations of his early youth.
Von Werner presented his experiences and insights on the political and social conditions of the Ottoman Empire in his "Turkish Sketches". In 1872 he was consul general in Venice, in 1874 Consul General in Dresden, in 1877 Minister Resident at the Courts of The Hague and Stockholm and in 1880 he became the envoy extraordinary and Minister in those courts.
He died at The Hague in 1881.
He died in 1936.