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Burckhardt, Jacob Christoph

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Burckhardt, Jacob Christoph (1818–1897)

Swiss art historian, one of the founders of cultural history as a discipline. His The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860), intended as part of a study of world cultural history, profoundly influenced thought on the Renaissance.

Burckhardt was professor of history at Basel 1858–93. He also wrote on Greek cultural history.



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