Upon acceptance Burckhardt planned to travel to the Levant in order to study Arabic, in the belief that his journey to Africa would be facilitated if he was accepted to be as a Muslim.

Carved out of a sandstone cliff on the west bank of the Nile, south of Korosko ( modern Kuruskū ), the temples were unknown to the outside world until their rediscovery in 1813 by the Swiss researcher Johann Ludwig Burckhardt.

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

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.

* John Lewis Burckhardt ( Johann Ludwig Burckhardt )-Travels in Arabia ; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Muslims regard as sacred, online version available free from the Gutenberg Project

According to Andrew Nagorski ( 2007 ; The Greatest Battle ) Adolf Hitler had declared his intention to invade the USSR on 11 August 1939 to Carl Jacob Burckhardt, League of Nations Commissioner by saying, " Everything I undertake is directed against the Russians.

On Tuesday, July 12, 1983, at the summer house he maintained with Burckhardt in Searsmont Maine, he committed suicide ; he had been ill and increasingly concerned about the loss of his mental powers.

Göring was a relative of numerous descendants of the Eberle / Eberlin in Switzerland and Germany, among them German Counts Zeppelin, including aviation pioneer Ferdinand von Zeppelin ; German nationalistic art historian Hermann Grimm ( author of concept of the German hero as a mover of history that was embraced by the Nazis ); the Swiss historian of art and cultural, political and social thinker Jacob Burckhardt ; Swiss diplomat, historian and President of International Red Cross Carl J. Burckhardt ; the Merck family, the owners of the German pharmaceutical giant Merck ; major German Catholic writer and poet Gertrud von Le Fort.

" Other Grooms films include: The Big Sneeze ( 1962 ), a hand-drawn comic filmed by Rudy Burckhardt ; Before an ' After ( 1964 ), a sadomastic comedy that casts Mimi Gross as part dominatrix / part healthclub operator ; Fat Feet ( 1966 ), a collaboration with Mimi Gross, Yvonne Andersen and Dominic Falcone that begins where Shoot the Moon ends ; Tapping Toes ( 1968-70 ), which uses his first sculpto-pictorama City of Chicago ( 1967 ) as its set ; Conquest of Libya by Italy ( 1912-13 ) ( 1972-3 ), a black and white animation that spoofs that era's newsreels ; Hippodrome Hardware ( 1973 ), based on Grooms ' 1972 live performance of the same name, whose main character Mr. Ruckus is played by Grooms ; Grow Great ( 1974 ), a live-action short that features Mimi Gross as the household consumer ; Little Red Riding Hood ( 1978 ), which features his daughter Saskia ; and Man Walking Up ( 1984 ).

Both Michelet and Burckhardt were keen to describe the progress made in the Renaissance towards the modern age.

During his residence in Syria, Burckhardt visited Palmyra, Damascus, Lebanon and made a series of other exploratory trips in the region.

Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, a Swiss traveler to Palestine who passed through the area around 1817, mentioned the village without providing an description.

Löwith describes this relationship through famous western philosophers and historians, including Burckhardt, Marx, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Voltaire, Vico, Bossuet, Augustine and Orosius.

Unlike Burckhardt, Voigt described only the first century of a movement which came from Renaissance Florence and spread all through Europe.

Johann Ludwig Burckhardt said that the true Ja ' alin from the eastern desert of Sudan are exactly like the Bedouin of eastern Arabia.

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.

The site remained unknown to the Western world until 1812, when it was introduced by Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt.

It is commonly accepted that the first systematic attempt at human psychosurgery was conducted by the Swiss psychiatrist Gottlieb Burckhardt in the late 1880s.

A significant advantage of this approach was that, unlike the position adopted by Burckhardt, it was unfalsifiable according to the knowledge and technology of the time as the absence of a known correlation between physical brain pathology and mental illness could not disprove his thesis.

As preparation Burckhardt briefly studied Arabic at the University of Cambridge, and prepared for his rigorous career as an explorer by wandering bareheaded in the English countryside during a heatwave, subsisting on vegetables and water, and sleeping on the bare ground.

Burckhardt was portrayed by Thomas Lockyer in the 2005 BBC docudrama Egypt.

* The Unanimous Tradition, Essays on the essential unity of all religions, by Joseph Epes Brown, Titus Burckhardt, Rama P. Coomaraswamy, Gai Eaton, Isaline B. Horner, Toshihiko Izutsu, Martin Lings, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Lord Northbourne, Marco Pallis, Whitall N. Perry, Leo Schaya, Frithjof Schuon, Philip Sherrard, William Stoddart, Elémire Zolla, edited by Ranjit Fernando, Sri Lanka Institute of Traditional Studies, 1991 ISBN 955-9028-01-4

The first English translation was done in partial form by Angela Culme-Seymour from the French translation of Titus Burckhardt as Wisdom of the Prophets ( 1975 ), and the first full translation was by Ralph Austin as Bezels of Wisdom ( 1980 ).

Burckhardt says that the wall and ditch around the city had been built by Othman el Medhayfe.

Burckhardt says that the castle had been built by Sharif Ghalib.

the 19th century by Jacob Burckhardt, who was Swiss historian

* Burckhardt, John Lewis, 1784-1817 ( 1822 ): Travels in Syria and the Holy Land Edition: reprint, Published by J. Murray, 668 pages.

The first provisional orbit was computed in June by Johann Karl Burckhardt.

* Burckhardt, John Lewis, 1784-1817 ( 1822 ): Travels in Syria and the Holy Land Edition: reprint, Published by J. Murray, 668 pages.

The city of Petra was brought to the attention of Westerners by the Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt in 1812.

As originally conceived and practiced by 19th Century Swiss historian Jakob Burckhardt with regard to the Italian Renaissance, cultural history was oriented to the study of a particular historical period in its entirety, with regard not only for its painting, sculpture and architecture, but for the economic basis underpinning society, and the social institutions of its daily life as well.

Fishes of Guiana, Part II., by Robert H. Schomburgk with, Portrait and Memoir of John Lewis Burckhardt.

Another student, Johann Karl Burckhardt published the book Theorie der Kettenbrüche after being encouraged by Hindenberg to work on continued fractions.

There are works by Burckhardt, Mastroianni, Kemény, Penalba, Arp, Braque, Hajdu, Soniatta, Miró, Calder, Soulages, Giacometti, Tàpies, Coghuf, Valentin, Otto Müller, Stahly, Baier, Bodmer, Oertli, Gehr, Gubler, Prantl, Baumgarten, Disler, Bill, Josef Felix Müller, Paladino, Richter, Fabro, and Cucchi.

Gradually the podests became more despotic and more corrupt: the sale of public offices at Ferrara was a matter of public record, as Jakob Burckhardt noted: " At the new year 1502 the majority of the officials bought their places at prezzi salati ( pungent prices ) public servants of the most various kinds, custom-house officers, massari / bailiffs, notaries, podesta, judges, and even governors of provincial towns are quoted by name.

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.

* Averil Cameron ( professor at King's College and Oxford ) and Stuart Hall ( historian and theologian ), in their recent translation of the Life of Constantine, point out that writers such as Burckhardt found it necessary to attack Eusebius in order to undermine the ideological legitimacy of the Habsburg empire, which based itself on the idea of Christian empire derived from Constantine, and that the most controversial letter in the Life has since been found among the papyri of Egypt.

In December 1888 Burckhardt operated on the brains of six patients ( one of whom died a few days after the operation ) at the Préfargier Asylum, cutting out a piece of cerebral cortex.

Burckhardt operated on the brains of six patients ( one of whom died a few days after the operation ) at Préfargier Asylum, cutting out a piece of cerebral cortex.

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.

Writing to Baldwin on the subject of the conversation between Karl Burckhardt ( the League of Nations ' Commissioner of Danzig ) and Hitler, Halifax said: " Nationalism and Racialism is a powerful force but I can't feel that it's either unnatural or immoral !.

Knecht's brilliant but unstable friend Fritz Tegularius is based on Friedrich Nietzsche, while Father Jacobus is based on the historian Jakob Burckhardt.

After publishing a proclamation on October 26, Dufour appointed as division commanders: Peter Ludwig von Donatz ( Grisons ), Johannes Burckhardt and Eduard Ziegler ( Aargau ) from among the Conservatives and Louis Rilliet de Constant ( Vaud ), Dominik Gmür, Giacomo Luvini ( Ticino ) and Ochsenbein ( Bern ) from among the Radicals.

Burckhardt lies across two slightly smaller craters on opposite sides, producing a triple-crater formation.

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Burckhardt.

As Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian and author of the classic The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy described, “ It was not the revival of antiquity alone, but its union with the genius of the Italian people which achieved the conquest of the western world .” In sum, Cavalcanti lived during and helped shape this time of great innovation that was spurred on by a desire to explore, create and experiment with new things.

* Force and Freedom: Reflections on History by Jacob Burckhardt ( 1943 )

What really matters is the distinctive murderous will of the Nazi leadership ... First, the intentionalist attack on the incorporation of functionalist types of explanation into our understanding of National Socialism proposes, implicitly but clearly, a retreat by the historical profession to the methods and stance of Burckhardt.

On the evidence above all of his " Reflections on World History " ( a book which greatly impressed anxious conservatives when it was re-issued in the late 1930s ) Burckhardt saw the historians ' task as to investigate, to classify and to order, to hate and to love and to warn -- but not, except on the smallest of scales, to explain.