This volume consists of records collected from Burckhardt's lecture notes for history courses at the University of Basel from 1865 to 1885. The 149 brief sections span... Læs mere
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