"Ranke did not stop at concrete description but attempted to pierce the deepest and most mysterious movements of life."
— Leopold von Ranke

January 1, 1970

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Heinrich von Sybel, ‘Gedachtnisrede auf Leopold von Ranke’, Historische Zeitschrift, LVI (1886), p. 463, quoted in Georg G. Iggers, ‘The Image of Ranke in American and German Historical Thought’, History and Theory, Vol. 2, No. 1 (1962), p. 29