Zur Kritik neuerer Geschichts-schreiber
treatise by Ranke
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discussed in biography
- In Leopold von Ranke: Early career.
The appended treatise, Zur Kritik neuerer Geschichtsschreiber, in which he showed that the critical analysis of tradition is the historian’s basic task, is the more important work. As a result of these publications, he was appointed associate professor in 1825 at the University of Berlin, where he taught…
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historiography
- In historiography: Leopold von Ranke
” The second volume, Zur Kritik neuerer Geschichtsschreiber (“Critique of Modern Historians”), established critical methods of historical scholarship that have since become normative. Ranke emphasized the acquisition of first-hand information and the tireless search for all relevant data, which he defined as “memoirs, diaries, letters, reports from embassies, and…
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