BURCKHARDT

Meaning of BURCKHARDT in English

/berrk"hahrt/ ; Ger. /boorddk"hahrddt'/ , n.

Jakob /yah"kawp/ , 1818-97, Swiss historian.

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BURCKHARDT, JACOB (CHRISTOPHER) — born May 25, 1818, Basel, Switz. died Aug. 8, 1897, Basel Swiss historian of art and culture. After abandoning his …
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BURCKHARDT, JOHANN LUDWIG — born Nov. 24, 1784, Lausanne, Switz. died Oct. 15, 1817, Cairo also called Ibrahim Ibn 'abd Allah the first European …
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BURCKHARDT, JACOB (CHRISTOPHER) — born May 25, 1818, Basel, Switz. died Aug. 8, 1897, Basel Jacob Christopher also spelled Jakob Christoph one of the …
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BURCKHARDT, JACOB — Additional reading A critical edition of Burckhardt's collected works, Gesamtausgabe, 14 vol., ed. by E. Durr et al. (192934), is …
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BURCKHARDT, JACOB CHRISTOPHER — born May 25, 1818, Basel, Switz. died Aug. 8, 1897, Basel Swiss historian of art and culture. After abandoning his …
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BURCKHARDT, JACOB — born May 25, 1818, Basel, Switz. died Aug. 8, 1897, Basel Swiss historian of art and culture. After abandoning his …
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BURCKHARDT, JACOB — (1818-1897) wrote The Civilization of the Renaissance.
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