Jacob Burckhardt
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Jacob Burckhardt
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Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt 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). He is known as one of the major progenitors of cultural history. Sigfried 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
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Swiss historian (1818–1897)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Burckhardt
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2003-09-06T12:51:18Z
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2024-09-12T15:31:57Z
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