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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 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).
Carl Jacob Burckhardt, an ICRC official who made most of the key decisions regarding Nazi Germany, stated in a September 1935 meeting that it was "dangerous to occupy oneself" with the concentration camps; he was certain that such visits would be exploited by the Nazis for propaganda purposes.
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
The authors Martin Armstrong, Herbert Ernest Bates, Buddhadeva Bose, Emma L. Brock, Carl Jacob Burckhardt, Arthur J. Burks, Rosario Castellanos, Cyril Connolly, Julius Evola, Marieluise Fleißer, Georgette Heyer, David Jones, Lois Lenski, Eric Linklater, Walter Lippmann, Sigurður Nordal, Howard Pease, Olive Higgins Prouty, Maria Ossowska, Anne ...
Jacob Burckhardt, 1818–1897, Swiss historian of art and culture, author of "The Culture of the Renaissance" Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (a.k.a. Sheik Ibrahim), 1784–1817, Swiss traveler and orientalist who re-discovered the ancient city of Petra; Carl Jacob Burckhardt, diplomat and President of the Red Cross
When Carl J. Burckhardt became High Commissioner in February 1937, both Poles and Germans openly welcomed his withdrawal, and Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Józef Beck notified him not to "count on the support of the Polish State" in the case of difficulties with the Senate or the Nazi Party. [124]
[3] [4] Carl Jacob Burckhardt (1947) called it "the sacrilegious union of the lily and the crescent". [5] It lasted intermittently for more than two and a half centuries, [6] until the Napoleonic campaign in Ottoman Egypt, in 1798–1801.