RT Article
T1 History: Sacred and Secular
JF Church history
VO 47
IS 1
SP 5
OP 22
A1 Spitz, Lewis W.
LA English
PB Cambridge Univ. Press
YR 1978
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1779565585
AB Jacob Burckhardt somewhat naively recorded that when he first came to the University of Berlin to study history, his eyes opened wide with astonishment at the first lectures he heard by Leopold von Ranke, Gustav Droysen and Philipp August Böckh. He realized that the same thing had befallen him as befell the knight Don Quixote, for he had loved his science on hearsay and suddenly here it was appearing before him in gigantic proportions and he had to lower his eyes. The occasion of delivering a presidential address to an august society of scholars, following on the podium historians of great distinction, and speaking on a topic of such magnitude is an equally humbling experience.
DO 10.2307/3164611