Bismarck-Schonhausen

Otto Euard Leopold, PRINCE von, was born in 1815, educated at Gottingen, Berlin, and Greifswald, and began his diplomatic career in 1851, when he was appointed Pru ian member of the revived German Diet of Frankfort. He remained in Frankfort till 1859, when he was sent as Minister to St. Petersburg, then as Amba ador to Paris in 1862. While in Paris he visited London, but he was recalled to Germany in,he autumn, and made President of the Cabinet. Throughout the events.vhich led to Austria’s humiliation Bismarck was the guiding spirit, and in 1871 he dictated terms of peace to France. In 1866 he was made Prince and Chancellor, and he held the latter office till 1890, during which time he tried to consolidate the empire which he had created.