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Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt (May 25, 1818 – August 8, 1897) 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.Jakob Burckhardt Renaissance Cultural History <!-- Bot generated title --> 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."Siegfried Giedion, in Space, Time and Architecture (6th ed.), p 3. Burckhardt's best known work is The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860).

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Uniform title: Griechische Kulturgeschichte. English
by Burckhardt, Jacob, 1818-1897
New York, Ungar [1963]
 
 
Uniform title: Weltgeschichtliche Betrachtungen. English
by Burckhardt, Jacob, 1818-1897
London [England] : George Allen & Unwin, 1943
 
 
by Burckhardt, Jacob, 1818-1897
London : New York : Allen & Unwin, Ltd. ; Oxford University Press, published by the Phaidon Press, [1944]
 
 
 
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