Abstract
The work of Hans Baron (1900–1988) focuses on the emergence of ‘civic humanism’ in Italy around 1400. Today, this German-Jewish historian and student of Friedrich Meinecke and Ernst Troeltsch is known only by a handful of scholars working on Florentine Renaissance culture. However, the idea of ‘civic humanism’, which combines the scholarly culture of humanitas with a civic commitment to republican virtues, exceeds the narrow domain of historical inquiry and has inspired a reassessment of the political thought of the early Renaissance, above all in the USA to which he emigrated after 1933. The article presents the intellectual career of Baron and outlines the central topics of his work which deserves to be recognised as an important contribution to the history of modern political language.
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