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  Biographie: Carl Jacob Burckhardt, 1891-1974
Burckhardt erhält den Lehrstuhl für Geschichte an der Züricher Universität.
Burckhardt wird vom Völkerbund als Hoher Kommissar für den seit dem Versailler Vertrag unter Völkerbundsaufsicht stehenden Freistaat Danzig eingesetzt.
März: Carl Burckhardt stirbt in Vinzel (Kanton Waadt, Schweiz).
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  historicum.net: Burckhardt, Jacob
Bauer, Stefan: Polisbild und Demokratieverständnis in Jacob Burckhardts Griechischer Kulturgeschichte, (Beiträge zu Jacob Burckhardt, Bd.
Vorträge in Basel und Princeton zum hundertsten Todestag (Beiträge zu Jacob Burckhardt, Bd.
Wenzel, Johannes: Jacob Burckhardt in der Krise seiner Zeit, Berlin 1967.
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 Bertil Haggman, Jacob Burckhardt
Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss Philosopher of History—100th Anniversary of His Death 1897
The role of the state is therefore to check factions, who want to gain power by the means of force, and to maintain a sense of security and continuity.
Religions, so Burckhardt, are the expression of human nature's eternal and indestructable meta- physical need.
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 Jacob Burckhardt - Perlentaucher.de, Kultur und Literatur Online
Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897), neben Leopold von Ranke und Theodor Mommsen einer der größten Historiker deutscher Sprache, wirkte von 1858 bis 1893 als Professor der Geschichte in Basel.
Jacob Burckhardts "Griechische Culturgeschichte" gehört zu den bedeutenden, bis heute nachwirkenden historischen Gesamtdarstellungen des 19.
Burckhardt setzte mit diesem Werk einer an Ereignissen und Fakten orientierten Geschichtsschreibung eine systematische Darstellung der...
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 Jacob Burckhardt
Jacob Christoph Burckhard was born in Basel as the son of a pastor.
In 1848 Burckhardt taught at the Pädagogium in Basel and in 1855 at the Polytechnic Institute in Zurich.
Florence was for Burckhardt the "most important workshop of the Italian, and indeed of the modern European spirit." Burckhardt was a life-long bachelor, but it seems that he had an unsuccesfull courtship in the late 1840s.
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 Jakob Burckhardt Renaissance Cultural history
In this work Burckhardt traced the cultural patterns of transition from the medieval period to the awakening of the modern spirit and creativity of the Renaissance.
He saw the transition as one from a society in which people were primarily members of a class or community to a society that idealized the self-conscious individual.
  Burckhardt established the thesis that Renaissance art represented a break with the past, wherein representation became scientific, realistic, individualistic and humane; the visual analogue to the birth of the modern sensibility, one which left behind the superstitious mindset of the Dark Ages.
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 "Jacob Burckhardt: History as Education and Culture," by David Melson
Burckhardt's ambivalent comments corresponded to his dislike of philosophies of history, whether Nietzsche's or Hegel's.
While eschewing the philosophy of history, Burckhardt expounded his efforts in demonstrating the educational role of the historian.
Jacob Burckhardt, Force and Freedom: Reflections on History, trans.
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 "Jacob Burckhardt: History as Education and Culture," by David Melson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-12)
Burckhardt would consequently attempt to write historical works, which embodied his desire to make the past both comprehensible and sensible through examining the contingent aspects of a given epoch.
Thus Burckhardt's interest in the vitality of medieval life countered the common notion that the virtue of the Renaissance lay in its termination of medieval culture.
Jacob Burckhardt, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, 2 vols.
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 Jacob Burckhardt Criticism
In the excerpt below, Baron evaluates Burckhardt's concept of the Renaissance, assessing criticisms of it and outlining two areas of weakness in The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy.
In the excerpt below, Heller describes Burckhardt's approach to original source material, positing an affinity between that employed by the historian and by the poet Goethe.
In the following excerpt, Ferguson, a noted Renaissance historian, describes the structure and argument of Burckhardt's The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, and evaluates the continuing validity of Burckhardt's portrait of the age.
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 "Jacob Burckhardt: History as Education and Culture," by David Melson
For Burckhardt, it is "the vision of both past and future [that] distinguishes human beings and animals," yet Hegel's optimistic vision of mankind's future would deny individuals a reason to hold onto the past.
Burckhardt reestablished the historian as a legitimate intellectual.
He called on historians to revitalize the past and to teach history with an aim to connect the lives of their contemporaries with the world of the past.
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 "Jacob Burckhardt: History as Education and Culture," by David Melson
Burckhardt realized that logical, or at least pedagogical, divisions were necessary for the study of a particular time period.
Generally, Burckhardt refused to speculate openly on philosophical matters in most of his historical works, but he debated the philosophical aspects of history in his correspondence with Friedrich Nietzsche after they met in Basle.
Burckhardt, Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, 21.
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 Fictionwise eBooks: Jacob Burckhardt
Still, Burckhardt never aspired to the role of prophet nor, for that matter, to any public role.
The emulation of Renaissance forms in contemporary architecture and home decoration to which this enthusiasm for the Renaissance led was not to the liking of a man who cherished only the genuine and historically rooted human expressions.
Jacob Burckhardt was born in 1818 in Basel, Switzerland.
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 Andreas Cesana, Lionel Gossman - Begegnungen mit Jacob Burckhardt - Encounters with Jacob Burckhardt - ...
Unter dem Titel "Jacob Burckhardt - Facetten seiner Wirkung" zeigte es die fortdauernde Bedeutung des Basler Kulturhistorikers auf.
Ein "neues Bild des Zeitdiagnostikers" Jacob Burckhardt sucht dieser von Andreas Cesana und Lionel Gossman herausgegebene Band zu vermitteln, berichtet Rezensent Peter Dietrich.
Fritz Stern hält er vor, in seinem Vortrag die Chance versäumt zu haben, Burckhardt für seine amerikanischen Hörer zu gewinnen, da er ihm ein negatives Urteil über Amerika zuschreibe, was nach Dietrichs Ansicht so nicht zutrifft.
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 "Jacob Burckhardt: History as Education and Culture," by David Melson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-12)
The two most salient examples of Burckhardt's interest in connections between historical periods lie in his sections concerning the "Revival of Antiquity" and the state of morality and religion in Italy.
What impressed Burckhardt was not the mere fact that classical culture became admirable in Italy, but that the spirit of Renaissance Italy found the culture of ancient Italy and Greece worth incorporating into itself.
Burckhardt recognized morality as the hardest of all cultural subjects to study, yet he examined it carefully, hoping to uncover enough evidence to form a picture.
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 "Jacob Burckhardt: History as Education and Culture," by David Melson
Burckhardt thus hoped to replace the traditional use of classical authors as a source of material for literary study with a study of classical authors for their personalities and individual modes of expression.
Burckhardt's novel use of classical authors coincided with his views on the entire process of studying them.
Burckhardt, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, 175.
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 "Jacob Burckhardt: History as Education and Culture," by David Melson
Burckhardt's view of the Renaissance as a process of resolution, working the conflicting themes of pagan antiquity and the Christian Middle Ages into a coherent whole, illustrated the general theme of his work.
Instead of simply presenting a view of Greek history in the manner of The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, Burckhardt engaged in the construction of a plan to present the culture of classical Greece to the public.
Burckhardt viewed the study of classical antiquity as an academic discipline concerned with the very foundations of European heritage.
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 Jacob Burckhardt Summary
The Swiss historian Jacob Christoph Burckhardt (1818-1897) was a philosophical historian whose books dealt with cultural and artistic history and whose lectures examined the forces that had shaped European history.
Jacob Burckhardt(May 25, 1818 – August 8, 1897) was a Swiss historian of art and culture.
He was born in Basel, educated there and in Neuchâtel, and, till 1839, intended to be a pastor.
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 "Jacob Burckhardt: History as Education and Culture," by David Melson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-12)
Countering the association between classical studies and elitism, Burckhardt expounded his reasons for writing a course of lectures on Greek culture in the introduction to The Greeks and Greek Civilization.
Burckhardt presented his lectures as "a tentative piece of work," and claimed that he was and would "remain a learner and fellow student.
Furthermore, Burckhardt's view that divine knowledge will remain a mystery to man contrasts with Hegel's view that patterns in history can be analyzed to determine divine reason.
www.janus.umd.edu /May2001/Melson/13.html   (402 words)

  
 palm eBook Store: Author: Jacob Burckhardt
Jacob Burckhard was known to the learned world as the writer of a highly original book, The Age of Constantine the Great (1853), and of the Cicerone (1855) which was to guide generations of enthusiastic pilgrims to the artistic monuments of Italy.
But the Civilization of the Renaissance (1860) became the real foundation of his world-wide fame.
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