What is the best known work of Swiss historian who Henk Schulte Nordholt admired?
Jacob Burckhardt Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt (May 25, 1818 – August 8, 1897) was a Swiss historian of art and culture and an influential figure in the historiography of both fields. He is known as one of the major progenitors of cultural history. Sigfried 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).
Karl von Hegel Karl Ritter von Hegel (7 June 1813, in Nuremberg – 5 December 1901, in Erlangen) was a German historian. During his lifetime he was a well-known and highly reputed historian who received many awards and honours, because he was one of the leading urban historians in the second half of the 19th century. However, his work has been little noted in the 20th and 21st centuries.