Burckhardt, Jakob(1818–1897)
The Swiss cultural historian Jakob Burckhardt was born in Basel, the son of a Protestant minister. He began his university education as a theology student, but lost...
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The Swiss historian Jacob Christoph Burckhardt (1818-1897) was a philosophical historian whose books dealt with cultural and artistic history and whose lectures examined the forces that had shaped Eur...
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Burckhardt, Jakob (1818-1897)
Jacob Christoph Burckhardt
