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Burckhardt (German) [ˈbʊrkhart] n (Biographies / Burckhardt, Jacob Christoph (1818-1897) M, Swiss, HISTORY: historian) Jacob Christoph. 1818-97, Swiss art and cultural historian; author of The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (1860) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| This view led people to conclude, as Titus Burckhardt notes in his magisterial Alchemy, "that an insatiable desire to make gold had persistently caused men to believe in a heap of fantastic prescriptions, which, rightly seen, were nothing more than a popular and superstitious application of natural philosophy of the ancients". She came to know Edwin Denby, the dean of American dance critics, in 1978 and later married Jacob Burckhardt, son of the filmmaker and photographer Rudy Burckhardt, Denby's closest friend. Jacob Burckhardt also spent his life happily immersed in the households of his sisters, which milieu significantly influenced the substance of his work. |
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