Ranke's other writings include Zur deutschen Geschichte vom Religionsfrieden bis zum 30-jahrigen Kriege (Leipzig, 1868) ; Geschichte Wallensteins (Leipzig, 1869; 5th ed., 1896) ; Abhand lungen und V ersuche (Leipzig, 1877; a new collection of these writings was edited by A. Dove and T. Wiedemann, 1888) ; Aus dem Briefwechsel Friedrich Wilhelms IV. mit Bunsen (Leip zig, 1873) ; Die deutschen Miichte und der Fiirstenbund. Deutsche Geschichte 178o-90 (1871-72); Historisch-biographische Studien (Leipzig, 1878) ; Ursprung und Beginn der Revolutionskriege 1791-92 (Leipzig, 1875) ; and Zur Geschichte von Oesterreich und Preussen zwischen den Friedensschlussen zu Aachen und Hubertus berg (Leipzig, 1875). He also wrote biographies of Frederick the Great and Frederick William IV. for the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie.
Ranke married, at Windermere, in 1843, Miss Clara Graves, daughter of an Irish barrister. She died in 187o, leaving two sons and one daughter.
At the time of his death Ranke was generally regarded as the first of modern historians. His reputation was due, in part, to his success as a teacher. In his more private classes, where he dealt with the technical work of a historian, he trained genera tions of scholars. No one since Heyne has had so great an influ ence on German academical life, and for a whole generation the Berlin, school had no rival. Ranke's example and training has made it impossible for any one to attempt to write modern history except on the "narratives of eye-witnesses and the most genuine immediate documents" preserved in the archives. He was determined never to allow himself to be misled, in his search for truth, by those theories and prejudices by which nearly every other historian was influenced—Hegelianism, Liberalism, Ro manticism, religious and patriotic prejudice.
Many of Ranke's works have been translated into English. Among these are Civil Wars and Monarchy in France, by M. A. Garvey (1852) ; History of England, principally in the 17th Century (1875) ; History of the Latin and Teutonic Nations, 1494-1514, by P. A. Ashworth (1887) and again by S. R. Dennis (1909) ; Iltstory of the Reformation in Germany, by S. Austin ; History of Servia and the Serbian Revolution, by Mrs. A. Kerr (2847) ; Ferdinand I. and Maximilian II. of Austria; State of Germany after the Reforma tion, by Lady Duff Gordon (1853) ; Memoirs of the House of Branden burg and History of Prussia during the 17th and 18th Centuries, by Sir Alexander and Lady Duff Gordon (1849) ; and History of the Popes during the 16th and 57th Centuries, by S. Austin (1840; new eds., 1841 and 1847), by W. K. Kelly (1843), and by E. Foster (1847— 53) • A collected edition of Ranke's works in 54 volumes was issued at Leipzig (1868-9o), but this does not contain the Weltgeschichte. For details of Ranke's life and work see his own Zur eigenen Lebens geschichte, edited by A. Dove (Leipzig, 189o) ; and the article by Dove in the Allgemeine deutsche Biographzle. See also Guglia, Leopold von Rankes Leben and Werke (Leipzig, 1893) ; M. Ritter, Leopold von Ranke (Stuttgart, 1895) ; H. F. Helmolt, L. Rankes Leben and Wirken (Leipzig, 1921) and H. Oncken, Aus Rankes Friihzeit (Gotha, 1922).