Examples of using Burckhardt in English and their translations into Hebrew
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The Burckhardt Academy.
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy- Jacob Burckhardt.
On Burckhardt the political and social thinker, see Sigurdson(2004).
We see how wonderfully it lives in all the learning of Jacob Burckhardt.
Burckhardt and the German historian Georg Voigt founded the historical study of the Renaissance.
In 1812, the city of Petra andAl-Khazneh was rediscovered by Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt.
Burckhardt added that since there was no place where they could be resettled, this could only mean one thing.
In contrast to Voigt,who confined his studies to early Italian humanism, Burckhardt dealt with all aspects of Renaissance society.
Burckhardt considered the study of ancient history an intellectual necessity and was a highly respected scholar of Greek civilization.
Friedrich Nietzsche, appointed professor of classical philology at Basel in 1869 at the age of 24,admired Burckhardt and attended some of his lectures.
Burckhardt denounced the persecution of Jews by the Nazis as the shame of the 20th century and remonstrated about each anti-Semitic act before the Danzig Senate.
Johann Ludwig(also known as John Lewis, Jean Louis) Burckhardt(November 24, 1784- October 15, 1817) was a Swiss traveller, geographer, and orientalist.
Although one died and others developed epilepsy,paralysis and aphasia(loss of ability to use or understand words), Burckhardt was pleased with his quiet patients.
Nietzsche believed Burckhardt agreed with the thesis of his The Birth of Tragedy, that Greek culture was defined by opposing"Apollonian" and"Dionysian" tendencies.
The Greeks and Greek Civilization" sums up the relevant lectures,"Griechische Kulturgeschichte", which Burckhardt first gave in 1872 and which he repeated until 1885.
In 1888 Swiss doctor Gottlieb Burckhardt, who had no surgical experience,‘operated' on patients with schizophrenia and psychotic hallucinations.
Carved into sandstone hills in the Jordanian desert, the ancient city of Petra remained unknown to the western world until 1812 when the Swiss explorer,Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, stumbled upon it.
Jacob Burckhardt(May 25, 1818, Basel, Switzerland- August 8, 1897, Basel) was a Swiss historian of art and culture, fields which he helped found.
The last Commissioner of the League of Nations, the Swiss Dr. Burckhardt, attempted to defer the implementation of the anti-Jewish steps with the argument that their incorporation would cause international complications.
Burckhardt made his first journey to Italy and published his first important article,"Bemerkungen über schweizerische Kathedralen"("Remarks about Swiss Cathedrals").
Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt(May 25, 1818- August 8, 1897) was a historian of art and culture, and an influential figure in the historiography of both these fields.
Burckhardt is not the only one to mention this fact, and we can assume that this was the case at least until the year 1837, the time of the great earthquake of Safed which probably caused the collapse of the well.
In 1814, Swiss explorer Johann Burckhardt wrote of his travels in Egypt and Nubia, where he saw the practice of slave trading:"I frequently witnessed scenes of the most shameless indecency, which the traders, who were the principal actors, only laughed at.
Burckhardt the prophetic pessimist and cautious liberal, the German language counterpart to Tocqueville and Lord Acton, and the author of three volumes reprinted by the Liberty Fund, has some following among contemporary conservative political and moral philosophers.
Thus Burckhardt was naturally led to write the two books for which he is best known, his 1860"Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien"("The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy")(English translation, by S. G. C. Middlemore, in 2 vols., London, 1878), and his 1867"Geschichte der Renaissance in Italien"("The History of the Renaissance in Italy").
Swiss traveller Johann Ludwig Burckhardt visited Mecca in 1814, and provided a detailed description in his 1829 book Travels in Arabia: It is an irregular oval, about seven inches in diameter, with an undulated surface, composed of about a dozen smaller stones of different sizes and shapes, well joined together with a small quantity of cement, and perfectly well smoothed; it looks as if the whole had been broken into as many pieces by a violent blow, and then united again.