Franz von Klebelsberg zu Thumburg

Franz von Klebelsberg zu Thumburg (Franz Graf von Klebelsberg Freiherr zu Thumburg) (24 July 1774 - 28 December 1857) was a Bohemian nobleman, official of the Austrian Empire, governor of Lower Austria and president of the Hofkammer. He was born and died in Třebívlice. He also owned a significant collection of coins, medals and engravings.

Franz Graf von Klebelsberg (1835)

Life

In 1798 he was made chamberlain and in 1800 'gubernialrat' (councillor) in Bohemia. In 1811 he was made director of the body which organised a dole of wood and bread to the poor in Prague and two years later director general of Bohemia's military hospitals. He was made vice-president of the Moravian-Silesian Region in 1825 and gubernium (equivalent to the modern post of deputy governor) of Bohemia in 1827. He was also made a privy councillor in 1827, then governor of Lower Austria the following year. He finally served as president of the Hofkammer from 1830 to 1834. In 1843 he became the third husband of the widow Amelie von Broesigke, mother of Ulrike von Levetzow, the last love of the poet Goethe

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