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Jacob Burckhardt

1818 - 1897

About the Author

Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897) was a Swiss liberal historian who wrote on Renaissance culture and art, the growth of the power of the modern nation state, and the importance of the self-governing, autonomous city-states of Florence and Athens.

In The Library:

• author: Judgments on History and Historians (1929)