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Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt (25 May 1818 – 8 August 1897) was a Swiss historian of art and culture and an influential figure in the historiography of both fields. His best known work is The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860).
According to Denys Hay: . Burckhardt sought to capture and define the spirit of the age in all its main manifestations. For him ‘’Kultur’’ was the whole picture: politics, manners, religion...the character that animated the particular activities of a people in a given epoch, and of which pictures, buildings, social and political habits, literature, are the concrete expressions.
As originally conceived and practiced in the 19th century by Burckhardt, in relation to the Italian Renaissance, cultural history was oriented to the study of a particular historical period in its entirety, with regard not only to its painting, sculpture, and architecture, but to the economic basis underpinning society, and to the social ...
Carl Jacob Burckhardt (September 10, 1891 – March 3, 1974) was a Swiss diplomat and historian. His career alternated between periods of academic historical research and diplomatic postings; the most prominent of the latter were League of Nations High Commissioner for the Free City of Danzig (1937–39) and President of the International ...
Carl Burckhardt or Karl Burckhardt may refer to: Johann Karl Burckhardt (1773–1825), German astronomer and mathematician; Karl Burckhardt-Iselin (1830–1893), Swiss politician; Carl Nathanael Burckhardt (1878–1923), Swiss painter and sculptor; Carl Jacob Burckhardt (1891–1974), Swiss diplomat and historian
Kaegi (1977) Werner Kaegi (February 22, 1901 – June 15, 1979) was a Swiss historian. He is best known for a single work, a biography of Jacob Burkhardt.This appeared in seven volumes, from 1947 to 1982.
Jacob Burckhardt; Johann Ludwig Burckhardt; R. Rudy Burckhardt; T. Titus Burckhardt This page was last edited on 31 January 2018, at 01:02 (UTC). Text is available ...
Johann Jakob Burckhardt (13 July 1903 – 5 November 2006) was a Swiss mathematician and crystallographer. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1936 in Oslo. [ 1 ]