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Jacob Burckhardt

1818 - 1897

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Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt (; Swiss Standard German: [ˈbʊrkhart]; 25 May 1818 – 8 August 1897) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacob Burckhardt is the 31st most popular historian (up from 32nd in 2019), the 31st most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 28th in 2019) and the most popular Swiss Historian.

Jacob Burckhardt is most famous for his work, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Jacob Burckhardt ranks 31 out of 561. Before him are Joannes Zonaras, Arnold J. Toynbee, Bede, Johan Huizinga, Ibn Kathir, and Edward Gibbon. After him are Saxo Grammaticus, Eric Hobsbawm, Marc Bloch, Ibn Ishaq, Friedrich Carl von Savigny, and Hippolyte Taine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1818, Jacob Burckhardt ranks 9. Before him are Christian IX of Denmark, Alexander II of Russia, Ignaz Semmelweis, Emily Brontë, Ivan Turgenev, and Charles Gounod. After him are Marius Petipa, Lewis H. Morgan, Tewodros II, Hermann Kolbe, Rudolf von Jhering, and Adolf Anderssen. Among people deceased in 1897, Jacob Burckhardt ranks 7. Before him are Johannes Brahms, Thérèse of Lisieux, Alphonse Daudet, Karl Weierstrass, Jiroemon Kimura, and Edward Drinker Cope. After him are Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī, Savitribai Phule, Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria, Albert Marth, Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and James Joseph Sylvester.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Jacob Burckhardt ranks 31 out of 1,015. Before him are Heinrich Rohrer (1933), Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921), Conrad Gessner (1516), Bruno Ganz (1941), Arnold Böcklin (1827), and Albert Hofmann (1906). After him are Emil Theodor Kocher (1841), Joan Gamper (1877), Carlo Maderno (1556), Felix Bloch (1905), Franz Mesmer (1734), and Johann Jakob Balmer (1825).

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Among HISTORIANS In Switzerland

Among historians born in Switzerland, Jacob Burckhardt ranks 1. After him are Heinrich Wölfflin (1864), Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815), and Florian Cajori (1859).

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