Bismarck and the foundation of the German empire . lect. His university career does not seem to have leftany mark on his political principles ; during just thoseyears, the agitation of which the universities hadlong been the scene had been forcibly repressed ;it was the time of deep depression which followedthe revolution of 1830, and the members of thearistocratic corps to which he belonged looked withsomething approaching contempt on this Burschen-schaft, as the union was called, which propagatedamong the students the national enthusiasm. After spending little more than a year at Got-tingen,
Bismarck and the foundation of the German empire . lect. His university career does not seem to have leftany mark on his political principles ; during just thoseyears, the agitation of which the universities hadlong been the scene had been forcibly repressed ;it was the time of deep depression which followedthe revolution of 1830, and the members of thearistocratic corps to which he belonged looked withsomething approaching contempt on this Burschen-schaft, as the union was called, which propagatedamong the students the national enthusiasm. After spending little more than a year at Got-tingen, he left in September, 1833 ; in May of the fol-lowing year he entered as a student at Berlin, wherehe completed his university course; we have norecord as to the manner in which he spent the winterand early spring, but we find that when he appliedto Gottingen for permission to enter at Berlin, it wasaccorded on condition that he sat out a term of im-prisonment which he still owed to the universityauthorities. During part of his time in Berlin he. BISMARCK IN 1834. 1847] Early Life. 19 shared a room with Motley. In order to prepare forthe final examination he engaged the services of acrammer, and with his assistance, in 1835, took thedegree of Doctor of Law and at once passed on tothe public service. He had, as we have seen, been destined for theDiplomatic Service from early life; he was well con-nected ; his cousin Count Bismarck-Bohlen stood inhigh favour at Court. He was related to or ac-quainted with all the families who held the chiefposts both in the military and civil service; with hisgreat talents and social gifts he might therefore lookforward to a brilliant career. Any hopes, however,that his mother might have had were destined to bedisappointed ; his early official life was varied butshort. He began in the judicial department and wasappointed to the office of Auscultator at Berlin, for inthe German system the judicature is one departmentof the Civil Service. After a
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