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    Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt (25 May 1818 – 8 August 1897) was a Swiss historian of art and culture and an influential figure in the historiography...
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    Carl Jacob Burckhardt (September 10, 1891 – March 3, 1974) was a Swiss diplomat and historian. His career alternated between periods of academic historical...
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    Italien) is an 1860 work on the Italian Renaissance by Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt. Together with his History of the Renaissance in Italy (Die Geschichte...
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    Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, the influential art historian Jacob Burckhardt and the international President of the Red Cross Carl Jacob Burckhardt. The surname...
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  • substance, cleanliness has a social dimension. "Cleanliness", observed Jacob Burckhardt, "is indispensable to our modern notion of social perfection". A household...
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    Switzerland, Titus Burckhardt was the son of the sculptor Carl Burckhardt (1878–1923) and the grand-nephew of Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897), an art historian...
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    they are only "history's slaves," realizing the decree of Providence. Jacob Burckhardt affirmed the historical existence of great men in politics, even excusing...
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    Erasmus of Rotterdam, Paracelsus, Daniel Bernoulli, Leonhard Euler, Jacob Burckhardt, Friedrich Nietzsche, Tadeusz Reichstein, Karl Jaspers, Carl Gustav...
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    Adam Kelterborn. So, after six months with his uncle, encouraged by Jacob Burckhardt, his mother's brother-in-law, he started studies with the portrait...
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  • milieu of or relating to the arts and manners that a group favors. Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897) helped found cultural history as a discipline. Cultural...
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  • David Thoreau (1817–1862) Some literature: Civil Disobedience Walden Jacob Burckhardt (Switzerland, 1818–1897) State as derived from cultural and economic...
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    19th century, after the work of scholars such as Jules Michelet and Jacob Burckhardt. The Renaissance began in Tuscany in Central Italy and centred in the...
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    controversy for its time and caused a scandal throughout Christendom. Carl Jacob Burckhardt (1947) called it "the sacrilegious union of the lily and the crescent"...
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    NY, 2009, pp. 84–85. The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance, Jacob Burckhardt, Peter Murray, James C. Palmes, University of Chicago Press, 1986,...
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    to claim the Renaissance as a French movement. The Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897) in his The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860)...
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    or confrontation with the Nazis. On 12 March 1945, ICRC President Jacob Burckhardt received a message from SS General Ernst Kaltenbrunner accepting the...
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    entitled A Visitor from the Living. On 12 March 1945, ICRC president Jacob Burckhardt received a message from SS General Ernst Kaltenbrunner allowing ICRC...
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    signatories were 49 famous citizens, including Hermann Hesse and Carl Jacob Burckhardt. The petition not only scuttled the power station project, but effectively...
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    1873 Thought and Reality and Nietzsche's colleague, the historian Jacob Burckhardt, whose lectures Nietzsche frequently attended, began to exercise significant...
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    Wilder (Carl Jacob Burckhardt) 1956 – Reinhold Schneider (Werner Bergengruen) 1955 – Hermann Hesse (Richard Benz) 1954 – Carl Jacob Burckhardt (Theodor Heuss)...
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    origins of the term High Renaissance. It was first coined in German by Jacob Burckhardt in German (Hochrenaissance) in 1855 and has its origins in the "High...
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  • (1830–1893), Swiss politician Carl Nathanael Burckhardt (1878–1923), Swiss painter and sculptor Carl Jacob Burckhardt (1891–1974), Swiss diplomat and historian...
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    500-franc banknote in the previous series 1000 francs 181 × 74 mm Purple Jacob Burckhardt 1 April 1998 30 April 2021 These images are to scale at 0.7 pixel per...
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  • Burckhardt Burckhardt, or (de) Bourcard, a family of the Basel patriciate Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784–1817), Swiss traveler and orientalist Jacob Burckhardt...
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  • of the Roman Empire (1776–1789), was a sharp critic of the Empire. Jacob Burckhardt, an influential 19th-century historian shared Gibbon's view: At its...
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    the most important thinkers in this era of global disruption" Carl Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian, diplomat, and president of the ICRC René Cassin,...
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    from 1460. Erasmus, Paracelsus, Daniel Bernoulli, Leonhard Euler, Jacob Burckhardt, Friedrich Nietzsche, Tadeusz Reichstein, Karl Jaspers, Carl Gustav...
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  • views of the earlier generation of Jules Michelet, Leopold von Ranke, Jacob Burckhardt or Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges. Averil Cameron, in examining the...
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    McCurdy (1917), p. 84. The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance, Jacob Burckhardt, Peter Murray, James C. Palmes, University of Chicago Press, 1986,...
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  • political and social thinker Jacob Burckhardt; Swiss diplomat, historian and President of the International Red Cross Carl J. Burckhardt; the Merck family, owners...
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