Jacob Burckhardt, in his cultural classic The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, observed that hierarchy, exclusionary and inherited caste structure was pervasive in Italy, from the nobili caste to the merchants to the peasants.

In the 19th century Jacob Burckhardt viewed Eusebius as ' a liar ', the “ first thoroughly dishonest historian of antiquity .” Ramsay MacMullen in the 20th century regarded Eusebius's work as representative of early Christian historical accounts in which “ Hostile writings and discarded views were not recopied or passed on, or they were actively suppressed ..., matters discreditable to the faith were to be consigned to silence .” As a consequence this kind of methodology in MacMullens view has distorted modern attempts, ( e. g. Harnack, Nock, and Brady ), to describe how the Church grew in the early centuries.

* Jacob Burckhardt ( 19th century cultural historian ) dismissed Eusebius as " the first thoroughly dishonest historian of antiquity ".

" Jacob Burckhardt portrayed Alberti in The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy as a truly universal genius.

However, the nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt noted that Jean Buridan had climbed the same mountain a few years before, and ascents accomplished during the Middle Ages have been recorded, including that of Anno II, Archbishop of Cologne.

The Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt ( 1818 – 1897 ) in his Die Cultur der Renaissance in Italien ( 1860 ), by contrast, defined the Renaissance as the period between Giotto and Michelangelo in Italy, that is, the 14th to mid-16th centuries.

* Burckhardt, Jacob The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy ( 1860 ), a famous classic ; excerpt and text search 2007 edition ; also complete text online

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But in 1951, the Neuen Helvetischen Gesellschaft ( New Swiss Society ), under the leadership of Emil Egli, got 150, 000 Swiss citizens to sign a petition protesting the project ; among the signatories were 49 famous citizens, including Hermann Hesse and Carl Jacob Burckhardt.

Zedler could rely on the support of Jacob August Franckenstein, a professor of natural and international law at the University of Leipzig, and was a friend of the publisher of New Learned Works, Johann Burckhardt Mencke.

The two historians who influenced Meyer particularly were Louis Vulliemin at Lausanne and Jacob Burckhardt at Bâsle whose book on the Culture of the Renaissance stimulated his imagination and interest.

As further testimony to the latter, Jacob Burckhardt described his recreational activities as follows: " Besides hunting, which he practiced regardless of all rights of property, his pleasures were of two kinds: he liked to have his opponents near him, either alive in well-guarded prisons, or dead and embalmed, dressed in the costume which they wore in their lifetime.

De Wette, Jacob Burckhardt, and the Theological Origins of Nineteenth-Century Historical Consciousness, Cambridge University Press, 1999.

The famed historian Jacob Burckhardt visited his class in his last semester ( 1839 – 40 ).

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Historian Steven Kreis expresses a widespread view ( derived from the nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt ), when he writes that: The period from the fourteenth century to the seventeenth worked in favor of the general emancipation of the individual.

Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt ( Basel, May 25, 1818 – August 8, 1897 in Basel ) was a historian of art and culture, and an influential figure in the historiography of each field.

* Carl Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss diplomat and historian

The term Renaissance is in essence a modern one that came into currency in the 19th century, in the work of historians such as Jacob Burckhardt.

Kugler's pupil, the great Swiss art historian Jacob Burckhardt, though he could not be called a specialist in medieval art, was an important figure in developing the understanding of it.

" Cleanliness ," observed Jacob Burckhardt, " is indispensable to our modern notion of social perfection.

The critic and historian Jacob Burckhardt was from Basel.

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* 1654 – Jacob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician ( d. 1705 )

* March 4 – Jacob Robert Emden, Swiss astrophysicist and meteorologist ( d. 1940 )

* August 16 – Jacob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician ( b. 1654 )

* Irene Jacob ( born 1966 ), French-born Swiss actress

* The Hutterites or Hutterian Brethren are descendants of German, Swiss, and Tyrolean Anabaptists led by Jacob Hutter, who was burned at the stake in 1536 for refusing to renounce his faith.

Irène Marie Jacob ( born 15 July 1966 ) is a French-born Swiss actress considered one of the preeminent French actresses of her generation.

Overage forward Stephon Thorne was named the 10th captain in Battalion history prior to the 2010-11 season while youngster Jacob Riley took over the starting goaltender job along with Swiss import Dennis Saikkonen.

Jacob Ammann and Nicolas Augsburger were chosen by a ministerial committee to travel to Switzerland for a meeting with church leaders to find out where the Swiss congregations stood on the disputed issues.

John James ( Johann Jacob ) Heidegger ( 19 June 1666-5 September 1749 ) was a Swiss count and leading impresario of masquerades in the early part of the 18th century.

The son of a Zürich clergyman, Johann Jacob Heidegger came to England in 1708 as a Swiss negotiator.

Others say it was Swiss gas dynamicist Jacob Ackeret ( 1898 – 1981 ) who did the calculations.

Jacob ’ s grandson, a spice trader also named Jacob, moved in 1620 to Basel, Switzerland, and was granted Swiss citizenship.

The first American settlement of the Amish Mennonites — who separated from the main body of Swiss Brethren and followed Jacob Amman — was in Berks County, Pennsylvania, around 1710 – 1720.

Jörg vom Haus Jacob ( Georg Cajacob, or George of the House of Jacob ), commonly known as George Blaurock ( c. 1491 – September 6, 1529 ), with Conrad Grebel and Felix Manz, was co-founder of the Swiss Brethren in Zürich, and thereby one of the founders of Anabaptism.

In April 1921, with Colonel Jacob Schmidheiny of Balgach and geologist Dr. Robert Helbling of Flums and with the help of Swiss financiers, he founded the Heinrich Wild, Werkstätte für Feinmechanik und Optik in Heerbrugg in the Rhine Valley.

Edvard Munch was related to painter Jacob Munch ( 1776 – 1839 ) and historian Peter Andreas Munch ( 1810 – 1863 ).

John Stevens Cabot Abbott ( September 19, 1805 – June 17, 1877 ), an American historian, pastor, and pedagogical writer, was born in Brunswick, Maine to Jacob and Betsey Abbott.

Nathaniel Morton, the historian of the first years of the settlement, thus opens his subject: " we may not hide from our children, showing to the generations to come the praises of the Lord ; that especially the seed of Abraham his servant, and the children of Jacob his chosen ( Psalm cv.

Lyman Abbott was born at Roxbury, Massachusetts on December 18, 1835, the son of the prolific author, educator and historian Jacob Abbott.

" The Damascene nobleman and historian Ibn al-Qalanisi in his chronicle also alludes at this time to the discovery of relics purported to be those of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, a discovery which excited eager curiosity among all three communities in the southern Levant, Muslim, Jewish, and Christian.

The Jewish historian Josephus maintains that the Hyksos were in fact the children of Jacob who joined his son Joseph in Egypt to escape a famine in the land of Canaan.

The historian Josephus maintains that the Hyksos were in fact the children of Jacob who joined his son Joseph to escape the famine in the land of Canaan.

The city was named for county historian Jacob Kiester.

In 1963, historian Jacob Cooke, an editor of Hamilton's papers, regarded this charge as " preposterous ", calling it a " conspiracy thesis " that overstated Hamilton's control of the federal government.

22 April 2007 < http :// www. dnr. state. mn. us / state_parks / itasca / narrative. html ></ ref > In the late 19th century, Jacob V. Brower, historian, anthropologist and land surveyor, came to the park region to settle the dispute of the actual location of the Mississippi's headwaters.

Jacob Bronowski ( 18 January 1908 – 22 August 1974 ) was a Polish-Jewish British mathematician, biologist, historian of science, theatre author, poet and inventor.

It was a time of transition from the authority and autonomy of the Medieval kehilla, toward a more modern ethos in which membership in the community was voluntary and Jewish identity far more personal and existential ; a time historian Jacob Katz has defined as ' tradition and crisis ', in his 1961 book by that name.