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Thomas Nipperdey

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Nipperdey, Thomas
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Date of birth
1927-10-27
Place of birth
Köln
Date of death
1992-06-14
Place of death
München

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Thomas Nipperdey (27 October 1927, Cologne – 14 June 1992, Munich) was a German historian best known for his monumental and exhaustive studies of Germany from 1800 to 1918. As a critical follower of Leopold von Ranke's famous ideal of writing "history exactly as it happened," Nipperdey sought to explain the interconnectedness of political, social and cultural developments, while avoiding partisanship and rejecting moralistic efforts to see German history before 1933 only in the light of Nazism.

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German historian.

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