
Eugen von Albori (27 September 1838-4 September 1915) was the Austro-Hungarian Governor of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1903 to 1907; he was also a Field Marshal of the Austro-Hungarian Army.
Biography[]
Eugen von Albori was born in Cattaro, Dalmatia, Austrian Empire (present-day Kotor, Montenegro) on 27 September 1838 to an old Venetian family. He graduated from the Theresian Military Academy before serving in a Tyrolean Kaiserjaeger Regiment during the Italian Wars of Independence in the 1850s and 1860s; he also served in the Austro-Prussian War of 1866. He was promoted to Major in 1872, Lieutenant-Colonel in 1876, and a divisional chief of staff during the 1878 occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was made a baron in 1880, and he became a Field Marshal in 1889. In 1903, he took command of the XV Corps in Sarajevo, becoming Governor of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1907, he left this position to become a troop inspector, and he worked for the White Cross from 1910 until his death in 1915.