19th/20th-century Danish literature critic and scholar
Not to be confused with George Brandis.
Georg Brandes
Georg Brandes, sketch, 1900
Born
Georg Morris Cohen Brandes (1842-02-04)4 February 1842 Copenhagen, Denmark
Died
19 February 1927(1927-02-19) (aged 85) Copenhagen, Denmark
Occupation
Critic
Education
University of Copenhagen
Relatives
Edvard Brandes (brother)
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Georg Morris Cohen Brandes (4 February 1842 – 19 February 1927) was a Danish critic and scholar who greatly influenced Scandinavian and European literature from the 1870s through the turn of the 20th century. He is seen as the theorist behind the "Modern Breakthrough" of Scandinavian culture. At the age of 30, Brandes formulated the principles of a new realism and naturalism, condemning hyper-aesthetic writing and also fantasy in literature. His literary goals were shared by some other authors, among them the Norwegian "realist" playwright Henrik Ibsen.
When Georg Brandes held a series of lectures in 1871 with the title "Main Currents in 19th-century Literature", he defined the Modern Breakthrough and started the movement that would become Cultural Radicalism. In 1884 Viggo Hørup, Georg Brandes, and his brother Edvard Brandes started the daily newspaper Politiken with the motto: "The paper of greater enlightenment". The paper and their political debates led to a split of the liberal party Venstre in 1905 and created the new party Det Radikale Venstre.
would become Cultural Radicalism. In 1884 Viggo Hørup, GeorgBrandes, and his brother Edvard Brandes started the daily newspaper Politiken with the motto:...
period had a breakthrough from the rest of Europe. Danish theorist GeorgBrandes is often considered to be the "wire-puller" behind the movement, although...
co-founder of the newspaper Politiken, brother of GeorgBrandes Ernst Brandes (1758–1810), German lawyer Ernst Brandes (1862–1935), German lawyer, estate manager...
author, and the younger brother of GeorgBrandes and Ernst Brandes. He had a Ph.D. in eastern philology. Brandes was a member of the Folketing for the...
Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes (German: [ˈbʀandəs]; 27 July 1777 – 17 May 1834) was a German physicist, meteorologist, and astronomer. Brandes was born in 1777...
appreciated in his lifetime: upon learning of his death, Danish critic GeorgBrandes wrote in a letter to his secretary that it was Corinth's "punishment...
grandchildren. In a letter to George Brandes shortly before the Paris Commune, Ibsen expressed anarchist views that Brandes later positively related to the...
self-sufficiency" and described it as "magnificent", Hans Christian Andersen, GeorgBrandes and Clemens Petersen all joined the widespread hostility, Petersen writing...
immediate kinship. He also exchanged letters with Hippolyte Taine and GeorgBrandes. Brandes, who had started to teach the philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard in...
the committee received 30 nominations for 22 authors which included GeorgBrandes, Grazia Deledda (awarded in 1926), John Galsworthy (awarded in 1932)...
about 1870 he came under the influence of Danish critic and scholar GeorgBrandes (1842–1927) and without abandoning art, began to devote most of his...
the course of a meeting that took place in 1920 with Danish critic GeorgBrandes and the latter's secretary. Tagore also lashed out against the orthodox...
movement and GeorgBrandes, writing audacious novels about free love and atheism. Strongly influenced by his origin he gradually left the Brandes line and...
9978553. GeorgBrandes, William Shakespeare. A Critical Study, trans. William Archer and Diana White (New York: F. Unger, 1963): 144 GeorgBrandes, William...
Arthur Schopenhauer Johann Georg Sulzer Tyagaraja Vissarion Belinsky Clive Bell Walter Benjamin George Birkhoff GeorgBrandes Ferruccio Busoni R. G. Collingwood...
nominations for authors like Thomas Hardy, Grazia Deledda (awarded in 1926), GeorgBrandes, John Galsworthy (awarded in 1932), Władysław Reymont (awarded in 1924)...
Icons of Danish Modernity: GeorgBrandes and Asta Nielsen. Seattle: University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-0-295-80436-1. Dora Brandes at IMDb v t e...
whose existence is disputed Proponents John M. Allegro Bruno Bauer GeorgBrandes Thomas L. Brodie Richard Carlile Richard Carrier Paul-Louis Couchoud...
1926 included Guglielmo Ferrero, Willem Kloos, Rudolf Maria Holzapfel, GeorgBrandes, Thomas Hardy, Roberto Bracco, Johan Bojer, Olav Duun, Paul Ernst, Paul...
lifetime interpreted by GeorgBrandes as aristocratic radicalism, a categorization which Nietzsche himself found best: [Of Brandes' description of his philosophy...
under the influence of Darwinism and the ideas of fellow countryman GeorgBrandes, he thought of himself as an atheist. Later in life, he turned to religion...
noticeable persons, world-famous artists, politicians and writers such as GeorgBrandes, Georges Clemenceau, Berta von Suttner, Flinders Petrie, Stefan Zweig...
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