The life story of :

Otto von
Bismarck
The Iron Chancellor
 Once there was a boy, who first saw the light of the world on April 1, 1815 at
Schőnhausen Altmarck Prussia (Germany) with the couple Karl Willhelm Ferdinand von Bismarck
and Wellhelmine Luise Mencken. He was given the name of Otto von Bismarck, a name that
echoes in the annals of history.
 Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand von Bismarck Wellhelmine Luise Mencken

His father was a former Prussian Military Officer and became a prominent land owner
(in other terms Junker), while his mother came from a well-educated family. He had two
siblings namely: Bernhard (older brother) and Malwine Bismarck (younger sister).
 He spent his childhood in helping his father manage there family estates. Bismarck got
his elementary education at Johann Ernst Plamann’s Elementary School and received his
secondary education from 1832 to 1833. After that he studied law at the University of
Göttingen.
 While studying at the University of Göttingen, Bismarck became a member of the corps
Hannovera, Göttingen, one of the oldest German student corps founded on January 18, 1809.
Bismarck then studied at the University of Berlin from 1833 until 1835.
 In 1847, he married Johanna von Puttkamer and were blessed with three children
namely; Marie, Herbert and Willhelm. Johanna provided him with stability. The year of their
marriage was a year of significant change to his life, when he also embraced the Christian
tradition of Lutheranism and began his political career.
 In 1851 Frederick William IV appointed Bismarck as the Prussian Representative to the
Franfurt Diet of the German Confederation.
 He became the Prime Minister of Prussia in 1862. At that time, Prussia was unstable
and a divided Monarchy. It was overshadowed by Russia, Austria, France and Britain and
threatened by a liberal democratic revolution.
 Bismarck, the Iron Chancellor turned the situation upside down with strong
statesmanship in two distinct phases.
 First is to made conservative Prussia, the standard bearer of German Nationalism,
waging three wars in rapid succession.
 His war against Denmark, Austria and France helped to bring the smaller German
polities into the rising orbit of Prussia.
 With his might he destroyed the entire European balance of power in the space of 7
years and united 39 independent German states.
 The newly-unified German State was soon exploding with industrial energy, outstripping
British coal/steel production.
 By the end of the century, it was leaping ahead in new industry like chemicals and
electricals.
 Phase two of Bismarck’s work was to protect the new politic-industrial colossus he had
created against jealous neighbors.
 Bismarck rejected “Greater German” expansion after 1870 and instead used diplomacy to
the council. He sought with the allegiance of both Russia and Austria, thus isolating France and
securing the German Empire against a war on two fonts.
 He held to this line, “Maintaining the European Peace, Safeguarding Germany’s Position
in Europe.” At his dismissal in 1890, Prussia was the dominant part of a United German Empire
and the greatest power in Europe.
 The subsequent unravelling of Bismarck’s diplomatic strategy led to World War 1 which
destroyed the German Empire.
He died on July 30, 1898 at Friedrichsruh, Auműnle Germany.
 The life chronicles of:

Adam
Smith
The Father of Economics
 Margaret Douglas
Adam Smith first breathe the air of
second marriage of his father also named
Margaret Douglas, a daughter of substantial
the chance to see and hold his father. Two
leaving his mother a widow.
life last June 16, 1723. He was the son of the
as Adam Smith a comptroller, of customs and
land owner. However, Adam Smith did not have
months before Smith was born, his father died
He was baptized at the church of Scotland at Kirkcaldy on June 5, 1973.
 His mother had a great influence on his education. He spent his elementary years at the
Burgh School from 1729 to 1737. There, he learned Mathematics, History and Writing.
 Smith entered the University of Glasgow when he was 14. In 1740, he was the
graduate scholar presented to take undergraduate studies at Balliol College Oxford.
 Smith considered the teaching at Glasgow to be far superior to that at Oxford, which
he found intellectually stifling. Near the end of his time there, he began suffering from
shaking fits, probably a symptom of nervous breakdown. He left Oxford University in 1746,
before his scholarship ended.
 In 1748, Adam Smith began delivering public lectures at the University of Edinburgh.
He earned a professorship at Glasgow in 1751 teaching logic courses and in 1752 he was
elected a member of Philosophical Society of Edinburgh. And in 1762, the University of
Glasgow conferred on Smith the title of Doctor of Laws (LL.D).
 In 1759, his first book “Theory of Moral Sentiments” was published. It embodied some
of his lectures in Glasgow. Following its publication, he became so popular that many wealthy
students left their schools in other countries to enroll at Glasgow to learn under Smith.
 His goal in writing the book was to explain the source of mankind’s ability to form moral
judgement given that people begin life with no moral sentiments at all.
 In 1776, he published another work entitled, “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of
the Wealth of Nations”, generally referred to its shortened title, “The Wealth of Nations”.
 In 1788, Smith returned to France where his mother was living and he was appointed as
Commissioner of Customs. And Between 1787 and 1789, he was given the position of Lord
 He never married in his life and with his unparalled works he was conferred with the
title “Father of Economics”.
He died in Edinburgh Scotland on July 17, 1790.
 Project in
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Miss Gemma Labe
Hannah Grace D. Cano
Instructor
BSEd Social Studies 3-2