With Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ( 1770 – 1831 ) in philosophy, Friedrich Schleiermacher ( 1768 – 1834 ) in theology and Leopold von Ranke ( 1795 – 1886 ) in history, the University of Berlin, founded in 1810, became the world's leading university.

With Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ( 1770 – 1831 ) in philosophy, Friedrich Schleiermacher ( 1768 – 1834 ) in theology and Leopold von Ranke ( 1795 – 1886 ) in history, the University of Berlin, founded in 1810, became the world's leading university.

Ranke and his disciples had reduced history to a profession of dullness ; ;

Von Ranke, for example, professionalized history and set the world standard for historiography.

Ranke thus sent the researcher to the archives for primary sources ; there he should transcend his personal predispositions and parochial loyalties, and write objective history " wie es eigentlich gewesen " (" as it actually happened ").

" For Eduard Meyer, Macaulay and Leopold von Ranke, who initiated modern source-based history writing, Thucydides was again the model historian.

" Leopold von Ranke felt that " Poitiers was the turning point of one of the most important epochs in the history of the world.

Von Ranke, for example, professionalized history and set the world standard for historiography.

These distinctions began to be eroded in the second half of the nineteenth century as the school of empirical source-based history championed by Leopold von Ranke began to find widespread acceptance, and today's historians employ the full range of techniques pioneered by the early antiquaries.

He also studied history with Leopold von Ranke.

Although much of existing written history might be classified as diplomatic history-Thucydides, certainly, is among other things, highly concerned with the relations among states-the modern form of diplomatic history was codified in the 19th century by Leopold von Ranke, a the leading German historian of the 19th century.

Ranke wrote largely on the history of Early Modern Europe, using the diplomatic archives of the European powers ( particularly the Venetians ) to construct a detailed understanding of the history of Europe wie es eigentlich gewesen (" as it actually happened .").

Ranke saw diplomatic history as the most important kind of history to write because of his idea of the " Primacy of Foreign Affairs " ( Primat der Aussenpolitik ), arguing that the concerns of international relations drive the internal development of the state.

He had already made himself known by critical studies on the history of the Middle Ages, of which the most important was his Geschichte des ersten Kreuzzuges ( History of the First Crusade ) ( Düsseldorf, 1841 ; new ed., Leipzig, 1881 ), a work which, besides its merit as a valuable piece of historical investigation employing the critical methods he had learnt from Ranke, was also of some significance as a protest against the vaguely enthusiastic attitude encouraged by the Romantic school towards the Middle Ages.

In 1856, on the recommendation of Ranke, Sybel accepted the post of professor at Munich, where King Maximilian II of Bavaria, a generous patron of learning, hoped to establish a school of history.

The first " scientific " political history was written by Leopold von Ranke in Germany in the 19th century.

Refusing to limit himself to political history, as did Leopold von Ranke, he never learned to handle his literary sources with the care of the scientific historian.

Leopold von Ranke ( 21 December 1795 – 23 May 1886 ) was a German neo-positivist historian and a founder of modern source-based history.

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 ).

Ranke showed little interest in the work of modern history because of his dissatisfaction with what he regarded as history books that were merely a collection of facts lumped together by modern historians.

During this time, Ranke became interested in History in part because of his desire to be involved in the developing field of a more professionalized history and in part because of his desire to find the hand of God in the workings of history.

It already showed some of the basic characteristics of his conception of Europe, and was of historiographical importance particularly because Ranke made an exemplary critical analysis of his sources in a separate volume, Zur Kritik neuerer Geschichtsschreiber ( On the Critical Methods of Recent Historians ).

Holden Observatory ( 1887 ) was followed by two Romanesque Revival buildings – von Ranke Library ( 1889 ), now Tolley Administration Building, and Crouse College ( 1889 ).

Taylor controversially argued that the Iron Chancellor had unified Germany more by accident than by design ; a theory that contradicted theories put forward by historians, Sybel, Ranke and Treitchke in the latter years of the 19th century, and again by other historians more recently.

His account of debates has been thrown into the shade by Ranke, his account of diplomatic affairs, by Klopp.

See monographs by F. Ranke ( 1871 ), H. Sauppe ( 1872 ) and E. Förstemann in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, XXI.

Hardenberg's Memoirs, 1801-07 were suppressed for fifty years after which they were edited with a biography by Leopold von Ranke and published as Denkwürdigkeiten des Fürsten von Hardenberg ( 5 vols., Leipzig, 1877 ).

Portrait of Leopold von Ranke in 1868, by Julius Schrader

However, Ranke has been generally praised by historians for placing the situation of the Roman Catholic Church in the context of the 1500s and for his treatment of the complex interaction of the political and religious issues in that century.

In a series of lectures given before the future King Maximilian II of Bavaria, Ranke argued that " every age is next to God ", by which he meant that every period of history is unique and must be understood in its own context.

Ranke rejected the teleological approach to history, by which each period is considered inferior to the period which follows.

This book, together with the later rival and apologetic history by Cardinal Pallavicini, was criticized by Leopold von Ranke ( History of the Popes ), who examined the use they have respectively made of their manuscript materials.

During his period in Berlin, he came in contact with and was greatly influenced by Friedrich Carl von Savigny, Alexander von Humboldt, Eduard Gans, and especially Professor Leopold von Ranke, whose ideas on the necessity for politicians to be acquainted with historical science he readily adopted.

At the university, Ranke became deeply involved in the dispute between the followers of the legal professor Friedrich Carl von Savigny who emphasized the varieties of different periods of history and the followers of the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel who saw history as the unfolding of a universal story.

Leopold von Ranke in 1848 claimed that American republicanism played a crucial role in the development of European liberalism:

Leopold von Ranke 1848 claims that American republicanism played a crucial role in the development of European liberalism:

He studied under the guidance of scholars such as Alexander von Humboldt, Leopold von Ranke, Friedrich von Schelling and Jakob Grimm, who all laid the foundations of human geography and historical research in the modern sense, as an expression of the Enlightenment.

Among the friends of the family was the historian Leopold von Ranke, which advised the parents to support the boy's innate talent.

Thus, in this way, Ranke urged his readers to stay loyal to the Prussian state and reject the ideas of the French Revolution, which Ranke claimed were meant for France, not Prussia.

In 1849, Ranke published Neun Bücher preussicher Geschichte ( translated as Memoirs of the House of Brandenburg and History of Prussia, during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries ), in which he examined the fortunes of the Hohenzollern family and state from the Middle Ages to the reign of Frederick the Great.

Starting in 1880, Ranke began a huge six-volume work on World History, which began with ancient Egypt and the Israelites.

This variant name could very well reflect the Egyptian name SЗt-Ptḥ, " Daughter-of-Ptah " ( the-t-in SЗt is silent ) which is known from the Middle Kingdom into the late period .< ref > Ranke, Die ägyptischen Personennamen I. 288. 22 ); cf.

The influence of Ranke early diverted him from his original purpose of studying law, and while still a student he began that series of researches in German medieval history which was to be his life's work.