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Jacob Burckhardt

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born

May 25, 1818 in Basel, Switzerland

died

August 08, 1897

gender

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History

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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, albeit in a form very different from how cultural history is conceived and studied in academia today. 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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Average rating: 3.76 · 356 ratings · 27 reviews · 63 distinct works

	The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt, Peter Murray, Peter Burke (Introduction) 3.73 avg rating — 295 ratings — published 1860 — 104 editions	My rating:
	The Age of Constantine the Great 4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1853 — 13 editions	My rating:
	The Greeks and Greek Civilization by Jacob Burckhardt, Oswyn Murray (Editor), Sheila Stern (Translation) 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1998 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Reflections on History 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1943 — 5 editions	My rating:
	History of Greek Culture by Jacob Burckhardt, Palmer Hilty (Translator) 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1963 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy 2 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1960 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The State As A Work Of Art 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Italian Renaissance Painting According to Genres by Jacob Burckhardt, Maurizio Ghelardi (Introduction), Caroline Beamish (Translation) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Judgments on History and Historians by Jacob Burckhardt, Harry Zohn (Translator) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1959 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy 1 of 2 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1960 — 4 editions	My rating: