Burckhardt
Americannoun
noun
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The Renaissance, Jacob Burckhardt once wrote, was a golden age for bastards.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025
Katz had met Denby through the filmmaker Rudy Burckhardt.
From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2022
Back in the Dark Ages, one of my assignments for a humanities professor was to write a critique of “The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy,” written in 1860 by Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt.
From Washington Post • Feb. 16, 2021
Mr. Adler just handed over the records and digitized files to his audio engineer, Jacob Burckhardt, who edits some tracks, improves their sound quality and sequences them in seamless fashion.
From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2016
But Burckhardt remained at the window to see that his command was carried out.
From Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad by Strang, Herbert
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