The Letters of Jacob Burckhardt

by Jakob Christoph Burckhardt, Jacob Burckhardt, editor/translator Burckhardt, jacob-- Dru, Alexander

Book Overview

As a rule, an author's correspondence possesses only a secondary interest, but Jacob Burckhardt's letters are of primary interest to students of history because of the nature of the man and of his major writings. Judgments on History and Historians, for example, consists not of Burckhardt's own lectures, but of notes on his lectures by one of his greatest students. It is because Burckhardt was a remarkably private man who believed that contemplation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865971234
• ISBN13: 9780865971233
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Liberty Fund
• Length: 327 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary to Grade 5