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Burckhardt

American  
[burk-hahrt, boork-hahrt] / ˈbɜrk hɑrt, ˈbʊərkˌhɑrt /

noun

  1. Jakob 1818–97, Swiss historian.


Burckhardt British  
/ ˈbʊrkhart /

noun

  1. Jacob Christoph . 1818–97, Swiss art and cultural historian; author of The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (1860)

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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

As the historian Jacob Burckhardt would write, “Italy began to swarm with individuality; the ban laid upon human personality was dissolved.”

From Washington Post Dec. 24, 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

Some of these misfortunes befel a traveller of the name of Burckhardt, who left Switzerland in the opening years of this century, to pass several years in Africa and the East.

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