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Jacob Burckhardt
b.25 May 1818 Basel
d.8 Aug 1897 Basel
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Name Jacob Burckhardt
Alt Name Carl Jacob Christoph _____
Gender Male
Birth? 25 May 1818 Basel
Death? 8 Aug 1897 Basel
Reference Number Q59945 (Wikidata)

Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt was a historian of art and culture, and an influential figure in the historiography of each field. He is known as one of the major progenitors of cultural history. Siegfried 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." Burckhardt's best known work is The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860).

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  1.   Zwicky, J. P. (Johann Paul), and Genealogisches Institut Zwicky. Schweizerisches Geschlechterbuch = Almanach Généalogique Suisse. (Basel: Kommissionsverlag von C.F. Lendorff, 1905-1965)
    662, 1907.
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