Jacob Burckhardt

Review of Jacob Burckhardt’s Judgments on History and Historians

Judgments on History and Historians, by Jacob Burckhardt Judgments on History and Historians is a collection of the author's lecture notes for a history course he taught between 1865 and 1885. First appearing in German...

Review of Jacob Burckhardt’s The Greeks & Greek Civilization

The Greeks and Greek Civilization, by Jacob Burckhardt Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897), a professor of history at the University of Basel, Switzerland, was one of the...