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Historian Jakob Burckhardt (c. 1894)

Like Theodor Fontane, the Swiss art and cultural historian Jakob Burckhardt (1818-1897) combined admiration for the achievement of German unity with a critical appraisal of its consequences.

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Historian Jakob Burckhardt (c. 1894)

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