He finished his degree in 1839 and went to the University of Berlin to study history, especially art history, then a new field. He was a member of the patrician Burckhardt family. The son of a Protestant clergyman, Burckhardt was born and died in Basel, where he studied theology in the hope of taking holy orders however, under the influence of Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette, he chose not to become a clergyman. His best known work is The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860). Sigfried 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." He is known as one of the major progenitors of cultural history. Burckhardt on the eighth series of the Swiss banknotes.Ĭarl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt ( – 8 August 1897) was a Swiss historian of art and culture and an influential figure in the historiography of both fields.
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