9 sentences with “von”

But the real Julie Andrews is more like..... well, Maria von Trapp.

"I knew they'd recognize me," Julie Andrews says, laughing. "They must think I do that all the time - that I'm Maria von Trapp forever!"

Another German, Leopold von Ranke, created the first truly systematic forms of historical research, in turn creating the academic discipline of history itself.

A Swiss physician, Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim (1492-1541), who chose to immortalise himself under the name of Paracelsus, is the father of modern medicine.

In Prussia, it was a Cavour-like but far more memorable official, Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, who was personally responsible for unifying Germany for the first time.

The scourge of alcohol is not new: as far back as 1600, the Rhine Count Palatine Frederick V, through the Landgrave Moritz von Hessen, sponsored the establishment of the famous temperance societies.

In 1884, Otto von Bismarck organised the Berlin Conference to determine what should be done with a huge territory in central Africa called the Congo, which was already under Belgian domination at the time.

Otto von Bismarck was an heir to these Prussian traditions, a Prussian conservative who served in various diplomatic posts in the Prussian kingdom before being promoted to chancellor by the Prussian King Wilhelm I.

The term "cultural struggle" itself comes from Germany. After German unification, Otto von Bismarck led an officially declared cultural struggle - a Kulturkampf - against Roman Catholicism, and later, against socialism. The term lends itself, however, to a number of conflicts that took place in Europe (and America) at the turn of the century, the most important of which had to do with feminism and the legal and cultural status of European Jews.