Burckhardt

American  

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

noun

1. Jakob 1818–97, Swiss historian.

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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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Example Sentences

Their stories are the ones we hear most often about the Renaissance, their narratives linked to Burckhardt’s grander point: that the Renaissance was a time of triumph for individuals who became masters of their own destiny.

From The Wall Street Journal

Tuckerman was particularly inspired by a 1967 paper by Swiss mathematician and crystallographer Johann Jakob Burckhardt, who suggested that it should be possible to use math to predict crystal structures yet didn't put forward a solution of his own.

From Science Daily

Where once there was robust, enduring debate about the so-called Great Man Theory of History — from Thomas Carlyle to Herbert Spencer to William James, with bows along the way to Hegel, Nietzsche and Jacob Burckhardt — today there is nary a word to such effect.

From Salon

Since graduating from Cooper Union in 1948 and becoming the only female founding member of the artists-run Tanager Gallery in 1952 — giving an early platform to Rudy Burckhardt, Al Held and Tom Wesselmann — Dodd has been a continuous presence in the New York art world, admired by her peers as well as her students at Brooklyn College, where she taught for two decades.

From New York Times

It’s there in the frozen smile of Ada, his favorite subject; in the bafflement of Ted Berrigan; in the hurt and suspicion in the eyes of the boys Vincent and Tony; and in the unexplained discomfit of Rudy Burckhardt on an otherwise golden late afternoon in August.

From Washington Post