Author: Burckhardt, Leonhard
Title: Cicero, Jacob Burckhardt und Basel. Eine Spurensuche
Review/Collection: In : Scheidegger Laemmle, Cédric (ed.), Cicero in Basel, Locating Classical Reception in a Humanist City, De Gruyter, 2024, 374 p.
Place edition: Berlin, Boston
Editor: De Gruyter
Year edition: 2024
Pages: 285-302
Keywords: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy
Description: Leonhard Burckhardt’s contribution reviews the presence of Cicero across the œuvre of Jacob Burckhardt, the scion of an old Basel family and erstwhile pupil of Gerlach’s. Jacob Burckhardt similarly spent most of his career at Basel, teaching at the University and the Pädagogium as well as delivering a wide range of public lectures and speeches. Drawing on J. Burckhardt’s rich Nachlass, including lecture notes and his extensive correspondence, L. Burckhardt shows that the great cultural historian was well versed in Cicero’s œuvre. While he knew well that for many Cicero embodied the drudgery of elementary Latin teaching, his own Cicero was more than a paradigm of Latinity: across his scholarly œuvre, J. Burckhardt shows an appreciation for Cicero that, not unlike Gerlach’s, seeks to overcome the separation of Cicero’s political life from his literary and philosophical achievements. Thus, J. Burckhardt places some importance on Cicero’s philosophical dialogues in his reconstruction of Greek culture and religion, and across his œuvre draws a sympathetic and respectful portrait of Cicero who is not just a paragon of stylistic mastery but also a sharp-minded critic and scholar [Scheidegger Laemmle 2024,16].
Link: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111454641-015/pdf
Author initials: Burckhardt 2024
Title: Cicero, Jacob Burckhardt und Basel. Eine Spurensuche
Review/Collection: In : Scheidegger Laemmle, Cédric (ed.), Cicero in Basel, Locating Classical Reception in a Humanist City, De Gruyter, 2024, 374 p.
Place edition: Berlin, Boston
Editor: De Gruyter
Year edition: 2024
Pages: 285-302
Keywords: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy
Description: Leonhard Burckhardt’s contribution reviews the presence of Cicero across the œuvre of Jacob Burckhardt, the scion of an old Basel family and erstwhile pupil of Gerlach’s. Jacob Burckhardt similarly spent most of his career at Basel, teaching at the University and the Pädagogium as well as delivering a wide range of public lectures and speeches. Drawing on J. Burckhardt’s rich Nachlass, including lecture notes and his extensive correspondence, L. Burckhardt shows that the great cultural historian was well versed in Cicero’s œuvre. While he knew well that for many Cicero embodied the drudgery of elementary Latin teaching, his own Cicero was more than a paradigm of Latinity: across his scholarly œuvre, J. Burckhardt shows an appreciation for Cicero that, not unlike Gerlach’s, seeks to overcome the separation of Cicero’s political life from his literary and philosophical achievements. Thus, J. Burckhardt places some importance on Cicero’s philosophical dialogues in his reconstruction of Greek culture and religion, and across his œuvre draws a sympathetic and respectful portrait of Cicero who is not just a paragon of stylistic mastery but also a sharp-minded critic and scholar [Scheidegger Laemmle 2024,16].
Link: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111454641-015/pdf
Author initials: Burckhardt 2024
