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Main interests. History of art. Cultural history. 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. [1]
5 days ago · Italy. Jacob Burckhardt (born May 25, 1818, Basel, Switzerland—died August 8, 1897, Basel) was one of the first great historians of art and culture, whose Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien (1860; The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, 1878, reprinted 1945) became a model for the treatment of cultural history in general.
May 30, 2018 · Meet Jacob Burckhardt, the thinker who invented 'culture' | Art and design | The Guardian. An insidious attack on Germanic nationalism ... Jacob Burckhardt (1818-97), author of The...
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Home World History Historians. Works of Jacob Burckhardt. Burckhardt’s most successful books are unthinkable without his familiarity with the historical sites and art treasures of Europe. His first important work, however, like the last, attested to his deep interest in ancient civilization.
Jacob Burckhardt, (born May 25, 1818, Basel, Switz.—died Aug. 8, 1897, Basel), Swiss historian of art and culture. After abandoning his study of theology, Burckhardt studied art history, then a new field, at the University of Berlin (1839–43). As he matured he became a cultural conservative, alienated from the contemporary world and ...
Jul 9, 2010 · Jacob Burckhardt rediscovered the Renaissance for the 19th century, viewing it shockingly as the dark and turbulent origin of modernity. Jonathan Jones hails his classic of cultural history ...
Mar 24, 2022 · This volume brings together an international team of historians of scholarship, politics, religion, literature, and ideas, whose expertise straddles the Renaissance and 19th century, to evaluate the achievement and legacy of the most famous work by the Swiss ‘father of cultural history’ Jacob Burckhardt (1818–97): The Civilisation of the Renaiss...
