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Otto, Prince of Bismarck, Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke of Lauenburg [a] (/ ˈ b ɪ z m ɑːr k /; born Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck; 1 April 1815 – 30 July 1898) was a Prussian statesman and diplomat who oversaw the unification of Germany.
Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck was born into an aristocratic family at Schönhausen, northwest of Berlin, on 1 April 1815. He attended a prestigious school in Berlin followed by the...
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Bismarck was born in Schönhausen, his family's estate in the Old Prussian province of Mark Brandenburg (now Saxony-Anhalt), west of Berlin. His father, Ferdinand von Bismarck, was a landowner and a former Prussian military officer; his mother, Wilhelmine Mencken, originally belonged to a well-off commoner family. Otto von Bismarck had several sibli...
Bismarck's most important legacy involves the unification of Germany. Germany had existed as a collection of separate principalities and free cities since the era of Charlemagne. Over the next thousand years, various kings and rulers had tried to unify the German states without success—until Bismarck. Following unification, Germany became one of th...
Crankshaw, Edward. Bismarck. New York: The Viking Press, 1981. ISBN 067016982XEyck, Erich. Bismarck and the German Empire. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1964. ISBN 0393002357Hiss, O. C. Bismarck: Laws and Sausages. Berlin: Sans Souci Press, 1931.Palmer, Alan Warwick. Bismarck. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1976. ISBN 0297770721Dec 16, 2009 · Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck was born April 1, 1815, at his family’s estate in the Prussian heartland west of Berlin. His father was a fifth-generation Junker (a Prussian landowning...
Sep 17, 2024 · Where was Otto von Bismarck educated? Otto von Bismarck (born April 1, 1815, Schönhausen, Altmark, Prussia [Germany]—died July 30, 1898, Friedrichsruh, near Hamburg) was the prime minister of Prussia (1862–73, 1873–90) and founder and first chancellor (1871–90) of the German Empire.
- Otto von Bismarck served as prime minister of Prussia (1862–73, 1873–90) and was the founder and first chancellor (1871–90) of the German Empire. A...
- Otto von Bismarck was born at Schönhausen, in the Kingdom of Prussia. His father, Ferdinand von Bismarck-Schönhausen, was a typical member of the P...
- At age seven Otto von Bismarck enrolled in the progressive Plamann Institute in Berlin. He later attended the Frederick William gymnasium. He then...
On April 1, 1815, Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck was born on the family estate at Schönhausen, in what used to be Prussia. He came into this world at the end of a quarter-century of pan-European crisis, which started with the French Revolution and ended with Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo.
Prince Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck-Schönhausen Duke of Lauenburg, (1 April 1815 – 30 July 1898), was an aristocrat and statesman of the 19th century in Europe.
