Historian

Jacob Burckhardt

Swiss historian

1818 - 1897

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His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2024). Jacob Burckhardt is the 31st most popular historian (up from 32nd in 2024), the 31st most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 28th in 2019) and the most popular Swiss Historian.

Jacob Burckhardt is most famous for his work, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy.

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Of the 4 Historians born in Switzerland, Jacob Burckhardt ranks first.

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Jacob Burckhardt's biography appears in 46 language editions of Wikipedia — more than 93% of all Historians.

May 25

Jacob Burckhardt shares a May 25 birthday with Pieter Zeeman, Padre Pio, and Toghon Temür.

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Among Historians

Among historians, Jacob Burckhardt ranks 31 out of 561. Before him are Joannes Zonaras, Arnold J. Toynbee, Bede, Johan Huizinga, Ibn Kathir, and Edward Gibbon. After him are Saxo Grammaticus, Eric Hobsbawm, Marc Bloch, Ibn Ishaq, Friedrich Carl von Savigny, and Hippolyte Taine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1818, Jacob Burckhardt ranks 9. Before him are Christian IX of Denmark, Alexander II of Russia, Ignaz Semmelweis, Emily Brontë, Ivan Turgenev, and Charles Gounod. After him are Marius Petipa, Lewis H. Morgan, Tewodros II, Hermann Kolbe, Rudolf von Jhering, and Adolf Anderssen. Among people deceased in 1897, Jacob Burckhardt ranks 7. Before him are Johannes Brahms, Thérèse of Lisieux, Alphonse Daudet, Karl Weierstrass, Jiroemon Kimura, and Edward Drinker Cope. After him are Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī, Savitribai Phule, Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria, Albert Marth, Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and James Joseph Sylvester.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Jacob Burckhardt ranks 31 out of 1,015. Before him are Heinrich Rohrer (1933), Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921), Conrad Gessner (1516), Bruno Ganz (1941), Arnold Böcklin (1827), and Albert Hofmann (1906). After him are Emil Theodor Kocher (1841), Joan Gamper (1877), Carlo Maderno (1556), Felix Bloch (1905), Franz Mesmer (1734), and Johann Jakob Balmer (1825).

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Among Historians In Switzerland

Among historians born in Switzerland, Jacob Burckhardt ranks 1. After him are Heinrich Wölfflin (1864), Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815), and Florian Cajori (1859).

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