Ranke

[ rahng-kuh ]

noun

1. Le·o·pold von [ley, -aw-pawlt f, uh, n], 1795–1886, German historian.

Example Sentences

Hirsch, Siegfried, born in 1816, studied history under the celebrated historian Ranke.

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Of course, with due regard to Ranke, all that was not the work of Jesuits, but men of his kind see "Jesuit" in everything.

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Ranke was influenced, if not by Hegel himself, at least by the Idealistic philosophies of which Hegel's was the greatest.

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The standpoint of Ranke, whose history is detailed and in certain respects exhaustive, is that of general bourgeois Philistinism.

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Hitherto I haue onely reckoned vp, and put in this ranke, some hearbs.

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