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Leopold Von Ranke Quotes

You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.
Leopold Von Ranke

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Author Details:
Type:
Historian Quotes
Category:
German Historian Quotes
Date of Birth:
December 21, 1795
Date of Death:
May 23, 1886
Nationality:
German
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