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Leopold von Ranke

1795 - 1886

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Leopold von Ranke (21 December 1795 – 23 May 1886) was a German historian and a founder of modern source-based history. He was able to implement the seminar teaching method in his classroom and focused on archival research and the analysis of historical documents. Building on the methods of the Göttingen school of history, he was the first to establish a historical seminar. Ranke set the standards for much of later historical writing, introducing such ideas as reliance on primary sources (empiricism), an emphasis on narrative history and especially international politics (Außenpolitik). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leopold von Ranke is the 22nd most popular historian (down from 21st in 2019), the 272nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 245th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular German Historian.

Leopold von Ranke was a German historian who is most famous for his research and writing on the history of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Among historians, Leopold von Ranke ranks 22 out of 561. Before him are Thomas Babington Macaulay, Mircea Eliade, Cassius Dio, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Manetho, and William of Tyre. After him are Arrian, Fernand Braudel, Joannes Zonaras, Arnold J. Toynbee, Bede, and Johan Huizinga.

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Among people born in 1795, Leopold von Ranke ranks 3. Before him are James K. Polk, and Frederick William IV of Prussia. After him are John Keats, Anna Pavlovna of Russia, Thomas Carlyle, Pavel Jozef Šafárik, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, Ernst Heinrich Weber, Rowland Hill, Gabriel Lamé, and Antonio José de Sucre. Among people deceased in 1886, Leopold von Ranke ranks 5. Before him are Emily Dickinson, Franz Liszt, Ramakrishna, and Ludwig II of Bavaria. After him are Chester A. Arthur, John Deere, Amilcare Ponchielli, Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust, Asher Brown Durand, Alexander Ostrovsky, and Ilya Ulyanov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Leopold von Ranke ranks 272 out of 7,253. Before him are Friedrich Bessel (1784), Walther von Brauchitsch (1881), Max Stirner (1806), Max Scheler (1874), Wilhelm Canaris (1887), and Oswald Spengler (1880). After him are Irma Grese (1923), Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (1016), Ernst Jünger (1895), Herbert Marcuse (1898), Athanasius Kircher (1602), and Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804).

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Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Leopold von Ranke ranks 2. Before him are Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717). After him are Friedrich Carl von Savigny (1779), Adam of Bremen (1100), Erwin Panofsky (1892), Samuel von Pufendorf (1632), Aby Warburg (1866), Julius Wellhausen (1844), Erich Auerbach (1892), Hermann Alexander Diels (1848), Arthur Moeller van den Bruck (1876), and Christoph Cellarius (1638).

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