<!doctype html public «-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en»> http-equiv=content-type> The revised 1st volume of the historical-critical complete edition of the correspondence of Leopold von Ranke contains 274 letters written by him and to him. For the first time, a basic new commentary reconstructs the young Ranke’s broad network of relationships, thereby offering new insights into the career strategies of the most important German-language historian of the 19th century.