Friedrich Heinrich Ranke

Friedrich Heinrich Ranke (30 November 1798 – 2 September 1876) was a German Protestant theologian.

He studied theology and philology at the University of Jena, where he was a pupil of Heinrich Luden and Johann Philipp Gabler.

He then studied philosophy at the University of Halle (from 1817), afterwards working as a private schoolteacher in Frankfurt an der Oder.

[1][2] In 1834 he relocated to Thurnau as dean and senior pastor, and several years later was appointed professor of theology at the University of Erlangen as a successor to Hermann Olshausen (1840).

[3] He was the author of lyrics to popular hymns, two of which are part of the present-day Evangelisches Gesangbuch (Protestant hymn book):[3] In 1832 he published a German edition of work by John Bunyan with the title of Des Christen Wallfahrt nach der himmlischen Stadt (introduction written by Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert).