History · Historiography
Which historian stated that the task of history is to show 'what actually happened' (wie es eigentlich gewesen ist)?
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- 1Giambattista Vico
- 2G. W. F. Hegel
- 3Johann Gottfried von Herder
- 4Leopold von Ranke✓
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Leopold von Ranke
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