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Source-Critical History (Ranke)
Ranke (1824) makes history a research discipline: original sources, critical reading and seminar training.
Open in the interactive tree →Leopold von Ranke, professor at Berlin, wanted to reconstruct the past from archives and diplomatic documents instead of older chronicles. His seminar method spread worldwide and set the standards of footnotes and archival work.
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- Paradigm Shifts (Kuhn)1962
- AI Reads Archives & Inscriptions2022-2026
- Disinformation & TrustopenSource criticism is the classic method for judging how reliable information is