Leopold von Ranke

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title: Leopold von Ranke
text: Leopold von Ranke 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was able to implement the seminar teaching method in his classroom and focused on archival research and the analysis of historical documents.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 h
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description: German historian (1795–1886)
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_von_Ranke
date created: 2003-05-31T19:55:48Z
date modified: 2024-09-06T17:31:02Z
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