Leopold Ranke: The Formative Years - Theodore H. Von Laue.
A passage from this essay has remained current among Catholics for having been quoted by Karl Adam in his celebrated Spirit of Catholicism.The essay was first published in October 1840 and first collected in the “Foreign History” section of Volume II of Critical and Historical Essays, 1843. Here is the entire essay, to provide the context — and to make it quite clear that the Protestant.Other articles where Rankeanism is discussed: 20th-century international relations: The threats to Britain’s empire: If, as Germany’s neo-Rankean historians proclaimed, the old European balance of power was giving way to a new world balance, then the future would surely belong to the Anglo-Saxons (British Empire and America) and Slavs (Russian Empire) unless Germany were able to achieve.View Leopold Von Ranke Research Papers on Academia.edu for free.
LEOPOLD VON RANKE, the founder of the objective school of history, was born at Wiehe in Thuringia, on December 21st, 1795. He studied at the gymnasium at Pforta, famous for the excellence of its training in the humanities, and at the university of Leipzig, where he devoted himself to theology and philology.The National Portrait Gallery will NOT use your information to contact you or store for any other purpose than to investigate or display your contribution. By ticking permission to publish you are indicating your agreement for your contribution to be shown on this collection item page. Please note your email address will not be displayed on the page nor will it be used for any marketing.
GEORG G. IGGERS is an internationally recognized authority on intellectual history and comparative international historiography. He is the author of New Directions in Historiography (1975, 1985) and The German Conception of History (1968, 1983), both published by Wesleyan University Press.
