Friedrich Heinrich Ranke studied theology and philology at the University of Jena and philosophy at the University of Halle and eventually became a private schoolteacher in Frankfurt an der Oder (a town in Brandenburg, Germany, located on the west side of the Oder River, on the Germany-Poland border, about 80 kilometres (50 mi) east of Berlin).
Friedrich Heinrich Ranke studied theology and philology at the University of Jena and philosophy at the University of Halle and eventually became a private schoolteacher in Frankfurt an der Oder (a town in Brandenburg, Germany, located on the west side of the Oder River, on the Germany-Poland border, about 80 kilometres (50 mi) east of Berlin).