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Jacob Burckhardt

May 25, 1818, the Swiss historian and academic Jacob Burckhardt was born. Burckhardt’s best-​known work is The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860), but is remembered here as the author of Reflections on History (1905).

Burckhardt died on August 8, 1897.

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