Leopold von Ranke
1795–1886
German historian and founder of modern source-based history (1795-1886)
writer · historian · university teacher
Born in Wiehe
Contemporaries
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- Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
- Napoleon (1769–1821)
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948)
- Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)
- Charles Darwin (1809–1882)
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