Jacob Burckhardt
1818
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1897
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: Switzerland
native language: German
languages spoken, written or signed: German
educated at: University of Bonn, Frederick William University, University of Basel
occupation: historian, university teacher, art historian, author, drawer, cultural historian, philologist, philosopher
student of: Leopold von Ranke, Franz Theodor Kugler
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. He is known as one of the major progenitors of cultural history. Sigfried Giedion described Burckhardt's achievement in the following terms: "The great discoverer of the age of the Renaissance, he first showed how a period should be treated in its entirety, with regard not only for its painting, sculpture and architecture, but for the social institutions of its daily life as well."His best known work is The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860). Source: Wikipedia (en)
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