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Ranke
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Ran·ke  (rängk), Leopold von 1795-1886.
German historian who pioneered the modern methods of rigorously analyzing firsthand documentation. His works include The History of the Popes (1834-1836).
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Tonsor focused on the thought of Hegel and Marx (whose Manifesto he described as "a great political poem about the mid-nineteenth century mind"), positivists August Comte and Herbert Spencer, and historians like Leopold von Ranke, Jacob Burckhardt, and Lord Acton, He arrived finally at such contemporary philosophers of culture and civilization as Oswald Spengler and Arnold Toynbee.
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