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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.
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 ...
Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897) helped found cultural history as a discipline. Cultural history studies and interprets the record of human societies by denoting the various distinctive ways of living built up by a group of people under consideration.
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
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 ...
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.
The Burckhardt family alternatively also (de) Bourcard (in French) is a family of the Basel patriciate, descended from Christoph (Stoffel) Burckhardt (1490–1578), a merchant in cloth and silk originally from Münstertal, Black Forest, who received Basel citizenship in 1523, and became a member of the Grand Council of Basel-Stadt in 1553.