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Karl Ferdinand Ranke

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German classical philologist

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According to Wikipedia, Karl Ferdinand Ranke was a German educator and classical philologist. He was the brother of historian Leopold von Ranke and theologians Friedrich Heinrich Ranke and Ernst Constantin Ranke . He studied theology and philology at the University of Halle, afterwards working as a schoolteacher at the Francke Foundations . In 1831 he was named director of the gymnasium in Quedlinburg, later transferring to Göttingen as successor to Friedrich August Grotefend as director of its gymnasium. In 1841 he became a professor at the University of Göttingen, and during the following year, was appointed director of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Berlin.

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