Jacob Burckhardt Haus - Basel, Switzerland
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N 47° 32.736 E 007° 35.766
32T E 394359 N 5266752
A office building near Basel central railway station, named after a famous historian.
Waymark Code: WM7P15
Location: Basel Stadt, Switzerland
Date Posted: 11/16/2009
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The place
Jacob Burckhardt Haus is a office building in Basel with several segments. The Western part is the global headquarter of Institut Straumann, one of the leading producers of dental implants, in the center there are the departments of law and economics of the University of Basel, and in the Eastern part there is the health insurance company Sympany and the European headquarter of Cochlear, the leading company in hearing solutions.
The man (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt (May 25, 1818, Basel, Switzerland – August 8, 1897, Basel) was a historian of art and culture, and an influential figure in the historiography of each field. He is known as one of the major progenitors of cultural history, albeit in a form very different from how cultural history is conceived and studied in academia today. Siegfried Giedion described Burckhardt's achievement in the following terms: "The great discoverer of the age of the Renaissance, he first showed how a period should be treated in its entirety, with regard not only for its painting, sculpture and architecture, but for the social institutions of its daily life as well." Burckhardt's best known work is The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860).
Year it was dedicated: around 2000
Location of Coordinates: The place at the tramwy station at the West front of the building, near main entrance
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Type of place/structure you are waymarking: Building
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