Ranke (rän'ke), Leopold von

Born at Wiehe, Thu ring i a, Germany, Dec. 21, 1795: died at Berlin, May 23, 1886. A celebrated German historian. He was educated at Leipsic; became ex- traordinary profe or of history at Berlin in 1825, ord i- nary profe or in 1834, and historiographer of Pru ia in 1841; and retired from his profe orship in 1871. His chief works are "Geschichten der roman is chen und ger- man is chen Völker von 1494 bis 1535" ("Histories of the Romanic and Teutonic Peoples 1494-1535," 1824), "Fürsten und Völker von Südeuropa im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert ("Princes and Peoples of Southern Europe in the 16th and 17th Centuries," 1827), "Die serbische Revolution" ("The Servian Revolution," 1829), "Die Verschwörung gegen Venedig im Jahr 1688" ("The Conspiracy against Venice in 1688," 1831), "Die römischen Päpste" ("The Zeitalter der Reformation” (“German History in the Pe- Popes of Rome," 1834-37), "Deutsche Geschichte im riod of the Reformation," 1839-47), "Neun Bücher pre us- sischer Geschichte" ("Nine Books of Pru ian History," 1847-48), "Französische Geschichte, vornehmlich im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert" ("French History, especially in the 16th and 17th centuries," 1852-61), "Englische Ge- schichte im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert" ("English History in the 16th and 17th Centuries," 1859-67), "Weltgeschichte" ("Universal History," 1880-86), "Geschichte Wallen- steins" (1869), "Ursprung des Siebenjährigen Krieges" 1819-25; "Ursprung der Revolutionskriege gre from Virginia 1799-1813 1815-17 and 1819 United (1875), "Die deutschen Mächte und der Fürstenbund"