Word: jakobs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great Cardinal did these things, Carl J. Burckhardt's book described brilliantly this week. Carl Burckhardt is a Swiss and grandson of Historian Jakob Burckhardt, famed author of Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien. Before the Nazi Gleichschaltung, Biographer Burckhardt was League of Nations High Commissioner for Danzig. To the writing of 17th-Century history he brings an unusual firsthand knowledge of 20th-century practical politics. He also brings a keen grasp of the political mind, a powerful prose style. He uses them for a kind of historical writing in which, instead of reading history, the reader seems...
Charles L. Kuhn, associate professor of Fine Arts; Leonard Opdycke, associate professor of Fine Arts; Jakob Rosenberg, associate professor of Fine Arts in the Fogg Art Museum; John D. Wild, associate professor of Philosophy...