Ernst Constantin Ranke (10 September 1814,

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– 30 July 1888,

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) was a German

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; since 1850, a professor of church history. He was the brother of

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(1795–1886),

Friedrich Heinrich Ranke Friedrich Heinrich Ranke (30 November 1798 – 2 September 1876) was a German Protestant theologian. He was the brother of historian Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886) and the father of pediatrician Heinrich von Ranke (1830-1909) and anthropologist ...

(1798–1876) and

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Karl Ferdinand Ranke Karl Ferdinand Ranke (26 May 1802, in Wiehe – 29 March 1876, in Berlin) was a German educator and classical philologist. He was the brother of historian Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886) and theologians Friedrich Heinrich Ranke (1798–1876) and E ...

(1802–1876).

Biography

He studied theology in

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and

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, and later became a pastor in the town of Buchau. From 1850 onward, he was a full professor of theology at

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, where he taught classes in church history and

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. In 1865/1866 he served as

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. He was a councillor of the Lutheran consistory with great impact to the issues of the Church of Hesse-Cassel. He wrote

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s and published translations of the Bible and books of songs.

Principal works

* Das kirchliche Perikopensystem aus den ältesten Urkunden der Römischen Liturgie (Berlin, 1847). * Das Buch Tobias, metrisch übersetzt (Bayreuth, 1847); The

Book of Tobit The Book of Tobit () ''Tōbith'' or ''Tōbit'' ( and spellings are also attested) itself from he, טובי ''Tovi'' "my good"; Book of Tobias in the Vulgate from the Greek ''Tōbias'', itself from the Hebrew ''Tovyah'' " Yah is good", also k ...

, translated metric. * Kritische Zusammenstellung der... neunen Perikopenkreise (Berlin, 1850). * Specimen codicis Novi Testamenti Fuldensis (Marburg, 1860). * Codex Fuldensis : Novum Testamentum Latine interprete Hieronymo (Marburg, 1868). * Fragmenta versionis sacrarum scripturarum Latinae Antehieronymianae e codice manuscripto (1868).

Poems

* Gedichte, dem Vaterland gewidme (1848); "Poems, dedicated to the homeland". * An das deutsche Volk, Ged (1848); * Carmina academica (Marburg, 1866); * Lieder aus grossen Zeit (1872); * Horae Lyricae (Bécs, 1874); * Die Schlacht im Teutoburger Walde (Marburg, 1876); "The

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". * Rhythmica: Praeit Hugonis Grotii effigies (Bécs, 1881); * De Laude Nivis (Marburg, 1886).Google Search
list of published works

References

External links

ADB: Ranke, Ernst] at

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