Jacob Burckhardt

25 May 1818 – 8 August 1897

Jacob Burckhardt was born in Basel, Switzerland, the son of a Protestant clergyman. He studied theology in Basel and in Neuchâtel. In 1839, having lost his faith, he moved to the University of Berlin to study art history. He spent part of 1841 at the University of Bonn studying under the art historian Franz Kugler. His first book, Die Kunstwerke der belgischen Städte, was published in 1842. He taught at the University of Basel from 1843 to 1855, then at ETH, the engineering school in Zurich. In 1858, he joined the faculty at the University of Basel until his 1893 retirement. In 1886 did starte

• Die Cultur der Renaissance in Italien
• Meus Artigos
• The age of Constantine the Great
• The civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
• Weltgeschichtliche Betrachtungen
• Die Kunst der Betrachtung
• History of Greek culture
• The altarpiece in Renaissance Italy
• The civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
• The Greeks and Greek civilization
• The letters of Jacob Burckhardt
• The State As A Work Of Art