Writing of Lord Acton, Hugh Trevor-Roper remarked: But, like everything else that participates in history, Burkhardt’s thought belonged to more than one tradition. A careful reading of all three - Ranke, Burckhardt, and Nietzsche - will reveal both the continuities and the divergencies that constitute this particular tradition. Today is the 204th anniversary of the birth of Jacob Burckhardt (–08 August 1897), who was born on this date in 1818.īurckhardt was a student of Leopold von Ranke and a teacher of Friedrich Nietzsche, which places him in a particular lineage of Germanophone history and philosophy - in other words, Burckhardt and his work in history both themselves have histories.
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