Jacob Burckhardt, the Historian, as Analyst of His Age

Authors

Walter L. Mullen

Keywords

Historians, Jacob Burckhardt, academic work

Abstract

Often the historian is faced with the question of how the study of the past relates to the present. Even when Leopold von Ranke's admonition is followed, and we try to tell history "as it essentially was" and eliminate subjectivity, purely personal opinions are difficult to keep out of formal academic work. Even when objectivity is attempted, the historian will have personal convictions about the object of his study in relation to his own existence.

Recommended Citation

Mullen, Walter L. (1980) "Jacob Burckhardt, the Historian, as Analyst of His Age," Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter: Vol. 16: Iss. 3, Article 4.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/sahs_newsletter/vol16/iss3/4