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Leopold I (Leopold George Christian Frederick (in German Leopold Georg Christian Friedrich) Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, later Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Saxony) (December 16, 1790 – December 10, 1865) was from July 21, 1831 the first King of the Belgians. He was the founder of the Belgian line of the House of Saxe-Coburg ...
Dec 2, 2017 · Their victim was to be a 14-year-old boy, Robert Franks, who they brutally murdered in the spring of 1924. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were born to very wealthy families in Chicago, as was their victim, Franks. Leopold was born in November 1904 and was considered a child prodigy.
Leopold George Christian Frederick of Saxe-Coburg, who later became King Leopold I of Belgium, became a sub-colonel in the Russian Imperial Guard at just 8 years of age and a general at 12.
Leopold von Ranke (born Dec. 21, 1795, Wiehe, Thuringia, Saxony [Germany]—died May 23, 1886, Berlin) was a leading German historian of the 19th century, whose scholarly method and way of teaching (he was the first to establish a historical seminar) had a great influence on Western historiography.
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Dec 21, 2018 · Leopold von Ranke was born in Wiehe, Thuringia, Germany, as the eldest son of the lawyer Gottlieb Israel Ranke (1762-1836) and his wife Friederike Ranke, née Lehmicke (1776-1836). As the son of an attorney, he was paved the way for a decent education.
Nov 16, 2022 · Between 1885 and 1908, King Leopold II of Belgium ruled the Congo Free State as his personal possession and extracted untold riches while murdering millions. The most brutal genocide you've never heard of.
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Ranke became deeply involved in the dispute between the followers of the legal professor Friedrich Carl von Savigny, who emphasized the varieties of different periods of history, and the followers of the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, who saw history as the unfolding of a universal story.
