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You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It only wants to show what actually happened.

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It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.

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Leopold von Ranke

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Born: December 21, 1795
Died: May 23, 1886 (aged 90)
Bio: Leopold von Ranke was a German historian and a founder of modern source-based history.
Known for:
  1. The theory and practice of history
  2. History of the Reformation in Germany
  3. The secret of world history
  4. History of the Latin and Teutonic Nations (1494 to 1514)

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