Leopold von Ranke

Standard Name: Ranke, Leopold von

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Lucie Duff Gordon
Her friends and acquaintances included (besides Caroline Norton , a particularly close friend) politicians Lord Lansdowne and Lord Monteagle ; writers William Thackeray , Charles Dickens , Emily Eden , Elliot Warburton , Alfred Tennyson
Literary responses Sarah Austin
Her translations of Ranke 's works were praised by Henry Hart Milman , Dean of St Paul's, and historian Thomas Babington Macaulay .
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Macaulay's response to History of the Popes was: Of this translation we...
Publishing Georgiana Chatterton
She sent out copies to Cardinal Wiseman , William Holman Hunt (who expressed his delight), Thomas Carlyle , Alfred Lord Tennyson (who called it picturesque), Edward Bulwer-Lytton , and German historian Leopold Ranke .
Textual Production Sarah Austin
SA 's next two translations were Leopold von Ranke 's The Ecclesiastical and Political History of the Popes, published by 18 July 1840, and History of the Reformation in Germany, which appeared by...
Textual Production Lucie Duff Gordon
In 1848 LDG and her husband collaborated on a translation, Memoirs of the House of Brandenburg and History of Prussia, from the German of Leopold von Ranke , which was published the following year.
Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton, 1994.
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Textual Production Lucie Duff Gordon
Three more translations followed, The Village Doctor (by Sophie de Bezancourt Loyré Arbouville ) and Ferdinand I and Maximilian II of Austria (a work of political history again by Leopold von Ranke ), both in...

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Ranke, Leopold von. History of the Reformation in Germany. Translator Austin, Sarah, Longman, Green, Brown, and Longmans, 1847, 3 vols.
Ranke, Leopold von. The Ecclesiastical and Political History of the Popes of Rome during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Translator Austin, Sarah, John Murray, 1840, 3 vols.