| Code | DS/UK/86 |
| Dates | 25/05/1818-08/08/1897 |
| Person Name | Burckhardt; [Carl] Jacob (25/05/1818-08/08/1897); Prof. Dr. |
| Surname | Burckhardt |
| Forenames | [Carl] Jacob |
| Title | Prof. Dr. |
| Activity | Professor of History at Basel University (1845-1853) Professor of History of Art at ETH Zurich (1855-58); Chair of History at Basel University (1858-1893). |
| History | Studied law in Basel (1837), and history and philosophy in Berlin, Bonn and Basel (1838-1842); PhD (Basel 1842). |
| Source | Grossman, Lionel, "Jacob Burckhardt." Dictionary of Art; Haskell, Francis, History and its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993, pp. 331–46; <http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/burckhardtj.htm> [accessed 17/06/2010] |
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