Alexander von Warsberg

Alexander von Warsberg was the eldest son of the Prussian chamberlain Baron Joseph Alexander von Warsberg and his wife Bavarian aristocrat Baroness Elisabeth von Wyttenbach. Soon after his birth, his father sold their family estates in Lorraine and moved the family to Graz. where Warsberg lived Warsberg attended gymnasium and university in Austria, and later joined the imperial royal civil service at the governor's office in Graz. == Career ==

In 1858, he was transferred to the governorship in Venice where he worked until he was dismissed by Cajetan von Bissingen-Nippenburg in 1859. In 1868, 1869, and 1871, Warsberg visited Egypt. In 1870, he spent several months in Corfu. During the first half of the 1880s, he toured Attica, Thessaly, Epirus, the Peloponnese, and Libya. However, after their first voyage together, he changed his opinion of Elisabeth and began showing a certain affection toward her. In 1887 and 1888, Warsberg accompanied the empress on further strenuous journeys through Western Greece, Ithaca, the Peloponnese, and Asia Minor. However, his health was steadily declining and he often complained that the hardships as Elisabeth's "travel marshal" exceeded all his previous trips to the Orient. In the fall of 1887, Warsberg was appointed Consul General in Venice, but died in the spring of 1889 from a long-standing lung condition. He was buried in the St. Leonhard-Friedhof Cemetery in Graz. == References ==