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Jacob Burckhardt

Died on August 8, 1897

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Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt (Swiss Standard German:; 25 May 1818 – 8 August 1897) was a Swiss historian of art and culture and an influential figure in the historiography of both fields. His best known work is The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860).

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