BULOW, BERNHARD ERNST VON Dan ish and German statesman, was the son of Adolf von Billow, a Danish official, and was born at Cismar, Holstein, on Aug. 2, 1815. He studied law at Berlin, Gottingen and Kiel, and began his political career in the service of Denmark, in the chancery of Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg at Copenhagen, and afterwards in the foreign office. In 1842 he became councillor of legation, and in 1847 Danish charge d'affaires in the Hanse towns. In 1850 he was sent to represent the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein at the restored federal diet of Frankfort. Here he came into intimate touch with Bismarck, who admired his statesmanlike handling of the growing complications of the Schleswig-Holstein Question. With the radical "Eider-Dane" party he was utterly out of sym pathy; and when, in 1862, this party gained the upper hand, he was recalled from Frankfort. He now entered the service of the grand duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and remained at the head of the grand-ducal government until 1867, when he became pleni potentiary for the two Mecklenburg duchies in the council of the German Confederation (Bundesrat) , where he defended the me diaeval constitution of the duchies against Liberal attacks. In 1873 Bismarck persuaded him to enter the service of Prussia as secre tary of state for foreign affairs. In 1875 he was appointed Prus sian plenipotentiary in the Bundesrat ; in 1877 he became Bis marck's lieutenant in the secretaryship for foreign affairs of the Empire; and in 1878 he was, with Bismarck and Hohenlohe, Prussian plenipotentiary at the congress of Berlin. He died at Frankfort on Oct. 20, 1879. Of his six sons the eldest, Bernhard Heinrich Karl (see above), became chancellor of the Empire.