Von Ranke’s approach to history was entirely built around the attempt to recreate the past without any involvement from modern ideologies and viewpoints, even famously claiming “Every generation is equidistant from God.” His approach instead emphasized the importance of going into archives and digging up as many sources as possible. This approach emphasizes the need for more and more information, and also shows a strong lack of susceptibility to information overload. This shows that the P is strong and forceful, likely P1. The de-emphasis on any involvement from modern ideologies is consistent with L7.
His approach is also built upon a strong position in relation to intuition. It is the assumption that a different set of ideas is necessary for every subject. This is a preference for I over T. Furthermore, an ironic feature of his history is that despite his significance to the development of history as a profession, his histories are rarely read in the modern day and seen to almost no value as such. Proof of this generalization can be found in the fact that only one of his books is available on Audible. (a biography of Savonarola which is still in the original German) This shows that he either took no interest in or had no ability to determine what would have made his writings stand the test of time. Both of these possibilities would be true of T4. I6 is also consistent with this strong preference for I at the expense of all T.
Despite the above mentioned love of more and more ideas, his approach was also extremely direct. His career as a historian began because when as a professor, he was given a history class to teach. When dissatisfied with the notes he was given on what to teach, he went to the historians whose writings they were taken from, and when dissatisfied with their writings, he began to journey around Europe in search of archives to look through. This all shows someone who had a lot of energy to put into his goals. This is consistent with F8. S2 is not obvious from his approach. However the success of his historical seminars (thus their replication by his students who later set them up in their universities) probably depended on the ability to make students comfortable enough to talk about their research. For this reason, S2 is likely.
Ranke’s approach to feeling can be somewhat hard to make out. However, what can be made out is entirely consistent with E3 and R5. However his social life is consistent with both of these placements. When on a trip to Paris, he met a woman and ended up returning to Germany with a wife much to the surprise of people that knew him and had largely assumed that he would never marry. From that point on, he was loyal to and took care of his sickly wife. During this period, their home became a meeting place for the Berlin intelligentsia. After her death, Ranke continued to attend parties of that sort but never again hosted them. All of this shows a flexible approach to ethics where when given the chance he took a more one to one approach but otherwise had a relatively large social circle. This is consistent with R being valued but E being accessible thus E3 and R5 make sense.
With P1, L7, T4, I6 and F8 demonstrated and S2, E3 and R5 not contradicted, LSE is the most likely conclusion.
Sources
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI1GgZwiS_c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL9oTvFu1qA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfXW37GfnEE&list=PLtXyoB7lSLdRhiNC9rnUAxL1q-TOSZaTf
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41211442?if_data=e30%3D&seq=1
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289247143_Migration_due_to_Marriage_Clarissa_von_Ranke_and_the_cosmopolitan_cultural_atmosphere_of_the_new_'home'
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