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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.

Leopold von Ranke

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

Leopold von Ranke

Leopold von Ranke

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:

The theory and practice of history
History of the Reformation in Germany
The secret of world history
History of the Latin and Teutonic Nations (1494 to 1514)

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