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Jacob Burckhardt

Born

in Basel, Switzerland

May 25, 1818

Died

August 08, 1897

Genre

Art History, Cultural 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). ...more

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	The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy 3.93 avg rating — 3,174 ratings — published 1860 — 616 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Greeks and Greek Civilization by Jacob Burckhardt, Sheila Stern (Translator), Oswyn Murray (Editor) 4.14 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 1902 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Age of Constantine the Great by Jacob Burckhardt, Moses Hadas (Translator) 4.02 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 1853 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reflections on History 3.94 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 1905 — 84 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	History of Greek Culture by Jacob Burckhardt, Palmer Hilty (Translator) 4.18 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1957 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Judgments on History and Historians 3.91 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1929 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The State as a Work of Art 3.33 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1860 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Richelieu: His Rise to Power by Jacob Burckhardt, Edwin Muir (Translator), Willa Muir (Translator) 4.07 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1935 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy 2 3.86 avg rating — 22 ratings — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy 1 by Jacob Burckhardt, Samuel George Chetwynd Middlemore (Translator) 3.68 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1860 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Jacob Burckhardt

De cultuur der Renaissance in Italie (3 books)
by

Jacob Burckhardt,

S.G.C. Middlemore (Translator),

Peter Burke (Introduction),

Peter Murray (Editor)

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Quotes by Jacob Burckhardt (?)

“Nothing in the world is better suited to laziness than orthodoxy. If you gag your mouth, stop up your ears and put a blinder over your eyes, you can sleep peacefully.”
― Jacob Burckhardt

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“It is the historian’s function, not to make us clever for the next time, but to make us wise forever.”
― Jacob Burckhardt

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“The seventeenth century is everywhere a time in which the state's power over everything individual increases, whether that power be in absolutist hands or may be considered the result of a contract, etc. People begin to dispute the sacred right of the individual ruler or authority without being aware that at the same time they are playing into the hands of a colossal state power.”
― Jacob Burckhardt, Judgments on History and Historians

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