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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).
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 ...
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.
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 ]
After Pitt's death in January 1806, ... Jacob Burckhardt. Jacob Burckhardt (Switzerland, 1818–1897) State as derived from cultural and economic life.
Voigt belonged to the founders of modern research into the Italian Renaissance along with Jacob Burckhardt. In 1860, Voigt was called by Heinrich von Sybel to the University of Rostock as professor of history. In 1866, he became professor of history at the University of Leipzig, following the historian Wilhelm Wachsmuth.
Burckhardt. Burckhardt, or (de) Bourcard, a family of the Basel patriciate Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784–1817), Swiss traveler and orientalist; Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897), Swiss historian of art and culture; Gottlieb Burckhardt (1836–1907), Swiss psychiatrist; Carl Jacob Burckhardt (1891–1974), Swiss diplomat and historian