
Born: March 31, 1805, Basel, Switzerland.
Died: July 25, 1882, Basel, Switzerland.
Buried: Friedhof Wolfgottesacker, Basel, Switzerland. Tombstone inscription: Ich lebe und ihr sollt auch leben
(I live, and you shall live also
).

A Reformed archdeacon based in Basel, Burckhardt was the son of Johann Rudolf Burckhardt and Esther Socin, and husband of Juliane Veronika Miville.