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Georg Brandes

Also known as Georg Morris Cohen Brandes, Morris Cohen

Danish literature critic and scholar (1842–1927)

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Georg Brandes was a Danish literary critic and scholar who lived from 1842 to 1927 and became one of the most influential voices in European literary criticism of his era. His work in analyzing and promoting literature shaped how people understood and appreciated writers and ideas across the continent during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Works: 34

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King Coal (Heathen Edition)
Die Wildente
Rosmersholm
Naturalism in Nineteenth Century English Literature
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Gender: Female
Origin: United States

Discography

Cantatas, Volume I1997
Cantatas1998
Alfred1999
The Rivals1999
The Masque of Alfred2000
Cantatas, Volume IV: Duet Cantatas2001
Symphony no. 4 / Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen2003

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Quotes

“The crowd will follow a leader who marches twenty steps in advance; but if he is a thousand steps in front of them, they do not see and do not follow him, and any literary freebooter who chooses may shoot him with impunity.”
“The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.”
“It would be as impossible for me to attack Christianity as it would be impossible for me to attack werewolves.”
“"[of Kierkegaard's behavior towards his ex-fiance Regine] There isn't the slightest reason to condemn him, but every call to attempt to understand him". "[Kierkegaard is] the mystery, the great mystery".”
“He maintains that culture shows itself above all else in a unity of artistic style running through every expression of a nation's life. On the other hand, the fact of having learnt much and knowing much is, as he points out, neither a necessary means to culture nor a sign of culture; it accords remarkably well with barbarism, that is to say, with want of style or a motley hotchpotch of styles.”
“Nietzsche asks how it has come about that so prodigious a contradiction can exist as that between the lack of true culture and the self-satisfied belief in actually possessing the only true one and he finds the answer in the circumstance that a class of men has come to the front which no former century has known, and to which (in 1873) he gave the name of “Culture-Philistines.””

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Key facts

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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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Georg
Gender: male
Citizenship: Danish Realm
Place of birth: Copenhagen
Place of death: Copenhagen
Sibling: Ernst Immanuel Cohen Brandes
Occupation: writer
Position held: professor
Educated at: University of Copenhagen
Employer: University of Copenhagen
Languages spoken: Danish
Native language: Danish
Religion: atheism
Academic degree: doctorate
Image: Georg Brandes by L Szacinski.jpg
Work location: Copenhagen
Residence: Copenhagen

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influenced by: Henrik Ibsen
Commons category: Georg Brandes
date of birth: 1842-01-01
date of death: 1927-01-01
member of: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
nominated for: Nobel Prize in Literature
described at URL: adl.dk/adl_pub/forfatter/e_forfatter/e_forfatter.xsql?ff_id=2
Commons Creator page: Georg Brandes
significant person: Victoria Benedictsson

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Works in European collections

26 objects attributed to Georg Brandes, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

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.

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