Bismarck (畢士麥) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Bismarck as an official and statesman. This record brings together 2 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Bismarck	畢士麥	Bismarck
Title	German chancellor	德相

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Uncertain

Roles

Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 光緒三十三年至宣統元年 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1907 · End: AD 1909
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:443:s0167, qingshigao:443:s0182, qingshigao:443:s0188

Works and attributed material

Kind: quotation · Role: speaker · Statement: law fixed by the sovereign, not for the people to interpret
Explicit · qingshigao:443:s0167

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 443Volume 443 Biographies 230: Sun Jianai, Zhang Baixi, Tang Jingchong, Yu Shimei, Shen Jiaben · 2 passages

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日皇所謂『組織權限，爲朕親裁』，德相所謂『法定於君，非民可解』。 As the Japanese emperor said, "the organization of authority is personally determined by Us"; as the German chancellor said, "the law is fixed by the sovereign and is not for the people to interpret."

臣愚以爲中國立憲，應以日本仿照普魯士之例爲權衡，以畢士麥由君主用人民意見制定，及伊藤博文先道德後科條之言爲標準，則憲法大綱立矣。」 Your servant humbly believes that in establishing constitutional government China should take Japan's imitation of Prussia as its measure, and Bismarck's principle that the sovereign should formulate law with reference to the people's views, together with Ito Hirobumi's teaching that morality must precede statutes, as its standards; then the grand outline of a constitution may be laid down."