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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).
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.
Using programmatic subheadings (the discovery of world and man; the development of individuality; the state as a work of art; the modern sense of humour), Burckhardt deftly analyzed the daily life of Renaissance Italy, its political climate, and the thought of its outstanding minds.
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).
Oct 28, 2022 · Jacob Burckhardt was an art and cultural historian, renowned for his historiographical method known as Kulturgeschichte. In the analysis of a historic moment, this method focuses on the moment’s inner aspects, such as the contemporaneous art and literature, the...
A noteworthy exception was Jacob Burckhardt, the German-Swiss his torian, who was born in Basel of an old patrician family in 1818. At the age of 20 he enrolled in the University of Berlin and for three. years heard Ranke's lectures and attended his famous seminar.
Jacob Burckhardt addressed the same issues and provides us with a vivid interpretation of the process by which modern culture emerged. A brief biographical note suffices. Jacob Burckhardt was born in 1818 (the same year as Marx) in Switzerland into the family of a Protestant clergyman that enjoyed an inheritance of wealth and power from the ...
Jacob Burckhardt: The Cultural Historian as Political Thinker. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2009. Richard F. Sigurdson. Article. Metrics. Article contents. Get access Cite Rights & Permissions. Extract.
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (German: Die Cultur der Renaissance in Italien) is an 1860 work on the Italian Renaissance by Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt. Together with his History of the Renaissance in Italy (Die Geschichte der Renaissance in Italien; 1867) it is counted among the classics of Renaissance historiography.
DURING HIS LIFETIME, the Swiss scholar Jacob Burckhardt (1818–97) gained international recognition for his path-breaking work in the fields of cultural history and art history.
