Jacob Burckhardt
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Jacob Burckhardt was born in Basel, Switzerland, the son of a Protestant clergyman. He studied theology in Basel and in Neuchâtel. In 1839, having lost his faith, he moved to the University of Berlin to study art history. He spent part of 1841 at the University of Bonn studying under the art historian Franz Kugler. His first book, Die Kunstwerke der belgischen Städte, was published in 1842. He taught at the University of Basel from 1843 to 1855, then at ETH, the engineering school in Zurich. In 1858, he joined the faculty at the University of Basel until his 1893 retirement. In 1886 did started teaching art history exclusively. He is known as one of the founders of the field of cultural history.
Books
Briefe
Vorträge, 1844-1877; im auftrage der Historischen und antiquarischen gesellschaft zu Basel
Kleine schriften
Judgements on history and historians
Ambitious in its scope, ranging from the days of Ancient Egypt, through the Reformation to the time of Napoleon, this title presents a history of Western Civilization.
Der Briefwechsel von Jakob Burckhardt und Paul Heyse: Herausg. von Erich Petzet.
Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of California and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Meus Artigos
"Published in 1860, Burckhardt's work redefined our sense of the European past, wholly reinterpreting what has since been known simply as the Italian Renaissance. With unsurpassed erudition, Burckhardt illuminates a world of artistic and cultural ferment, innovation, and discovery; of revived humanism; of fierce tensions between church and empire; and of the birth of both the modern state and the modern individual. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy remains the single most important and influential account of this crucial moment in the history of the West."--Jacket.
Recollections of Rubens
This edition contains 'Selected letters of Rubens, 'translated by R.H. Boothroyd and I. Grafe.
The Greeks and Greek civilization
Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897) is perhaps the preeminent historian of classical and Renaissance art, architecture, and culture. Burckhardt completed significant " cultural history," which he only described in his famous Reflections on History and in a celebrated series of lectures delivered in Basel in 1872. Burckhardt dramatically renounced these speeches during his own lifetime, fearing a hostile reception by a world body of scholars and critics who remained wedded to a romanticized view of the ancient Greek world. It is only now, for the first time, that the core of these lectures is available in book form to the English-language reader. Rejecting the notion that a perfect democracy had in fact existed, Burckhardt portrayed ancient Greek culture as an aristocratic world based on ruthless competition for honor, which led, in turn, to a tyrannous state with minimal freedoms.
History of Greek culture
Examines the civilization of ancient Greece, discussing the politics of the state and the nation, the fine arts, poetry, music, philosophy, science, and oratory.