In 1872, he was offered a chair at Berlin to replace his mentor, Leopold von Ranke, but refused, preferring to stay in his native Basel.
In 1872, he was offered a chair at Berlin to replace his mentor, Leopold von Ranke, but refused, preferring to stay in his native Basel. His first great work was The Age of Constantine the Great, and his last was an unfinished Cultural History of Greece that saw Greek culture as pessimistic and dominated by pursuit of momentary victory in contests of all kinds. FTP, name this first great cultural historian who saw both the state and the individual as works of art in his Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy.
In 1872, he was offered a chair at Berlin to replace his mentor, Leopold von Ranke, but refused, preferring to stay in his native Basel.
Jakob Burckhardt