Burckhardt (German ?b?rkhart) n (Biography) Jacob Christoph. 1818?97, Swiss art and cultural historian; author of The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (1860)Collins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014