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 .").

Also during his time in Berlin, Ranke became the first historian to utilise the forty-seven volumes that comprised the diplomatic archives of Venice from the 1500s and 1600s.

As a Protestant, Ranke was barred from viewing the Vatican archives in Rome, but on the basis of private papers in Rome and Venice, Ranke was able to explain the history of the papacy in the 1500s.

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

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

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 ).

History was to him, as it had been to Cicero, a school for morals ; but he had perhaps a juster conception than Ranke of the breadth and scope of the historian's field.

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 ).

Beginning with his first book in 1824, the Geschichte der romanischen und germanischen Völker von 1494 bis 1514 ( History of the Latin and Teutonic Peoples from 1494 to 1514 ), Ranke used an unusually wide variety of sources for a historian of the age, including " memoirs, diaries, personal and formal missives, government documents, diplomatic dispatches and first-hand accounts of eye-witnesses ".

Despite his opening statement, Ranke largely treated all of the nations under examination separately until the outbreak of the wars for the control of Italy starting in 1494.

) Ranke went on to write that the historian must seek the " Holy hieroglyph " that is God's hand in history, keeping an " eye for the universal " whilst taking " pleasure in the particular ".

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.

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.

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.

:: Ranke is a former captain in the Czechoslovak secret police who wants to see Tenma and Grimmer ; Grimmer requests an agreement to obtain the tape and research materials for an unknown party in Germany in return for Suk's safety.

While they do not agree, Ranke mentions Franz Bonaparta ( a picture-book author living in a mansion covered with red roses, who cared for the Liebert twins ).

Inspector Lunge later visits Ranke for information about Franz Bonaparta.

Together they are known for having introduced a critical theory of history in Swedish historical research, inspired by German historian, Leopold von Ranke.

In the tradition of Ranke and Johann Gustav Droysen, Voigt used the term " humanism " for the description of a historical period.

Ranke came to prefer dealing with primary sources as opposed to secondary sources during this time.

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.

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 ).

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

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.

He was not above par in literary criticism ; his Indian articles will not hold water ; and his two most famous reviews, on Bacon and Ranke, show his incompetence.

* Leopold von Ranke, ( 1795 – 1886 ), European diplomacy ; probably the greatest German historian

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.

Ranke later wrote " I see the time approaching when we shall base modern history, no longer on the reports even of contemporary historians, except in-so-far as they were in the possession of personal and immediate knowledge of facts ; and still less on work yet more remote from the source ; but rather on the narratives of eyewitnesses, and on genuine and original documents.

Ranke tells a story about his sister who, with her husband, was shot trying to cross the Berlin Wall into West Germany ; only their son, Adolf Reinhart, survived the attack.

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As a critic of independent Views he won the approval of Goethe ; on the other hand, he fell into violent controversy with Ranke about questions connected with Italian history.

For Ranke, then, history was not to be an account of man's " progress " because, " After Plato, there can be no more Plato.

While Roberto knows nothing about his past it is suggested that he is the nephew of a former high-level StB officer named Karl Ranke, since there is a resemblance between the two.

Following Georg Iggers, Peter Novick has argued that Ranke, who was more of a romantic and idealist than his American contemporaries understood, meant instead that the historian should discover the facts and find the essences behind them.

In his 1833 article " The Great Powers " and his 1836 article " Dialogue on Politics " Ranke claimed that every state is given a special moral character from God and individuals should strive to best fulfill the " idea " of their state.

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.

After his retirement in 1871, Ranke continued to write on a variety of subjects relating to German history such as the French Revolutionary Wars, Albrecht von Wallenstein, Karl August von Hardenberg, and King Frederick William IV of Prussia.

For example, Leopold Von Ranke, probably the pre-eminent historian of the 19th century, founder of " Rankean positivism ," the classic mode of historiography that now stands against postmodernism, attempted to write a Universal History at the close of his career.

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.

" 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.