File:Georg_Brandes_by_L_Szacinski.jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
Georg Brandes
Sign in to saveAlso known as Georg Morris Cohen Brandes, Morris Cohen
Danish literature critic and scholar (1842–1927)
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.
AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 34
Top works
- King Coal (Heathen Edition)
- Die Wildente
- Rosmersholm
- Naturalism in Nineteenth Century English Literature
- Michelangelo His Life His Times His Era
via Open Library + Wikidata
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- G*Power 3: A flexible statistical power analysis program for the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences
· 2007 · cited 54,685x
- Statistical power analyses using G*Power 3.1: Tests for correlation and regression analyses
· 2009 · cited 31,417x
- Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
· 2015 · cited 23,733x
- Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma
· 2005 · cited 18,717x
- SARS-CoV-2 Cell Entry Depends on ACE2 and TMPRSS2 and Is Blocked by a Clinically Proven Protease Inhibitor
· 2020 · cited 17,421x
via Crossref · CC0
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.””
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
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)
via Wikipedia infobox
Described at
Det Kgl. Biblioteks tekstportal
adl.dk →Link to a page describing this subject · 7,742 chars · not written by Vinony
Works in European collections
26 objects attributed to Georg Brandes, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Femte Bind: Samlede skrifter
Sekstende Bind: Samlede skrifter
Ottende Bind: Samlede skrifter
Femtende Bind: Samlede skrifter
Syvende Bind: Samlede skrifter
Sjette Bind: Samlede skrifter
Fjerde Bind: Samlede skrifter
Letter from Julius S... Bard and Georg Morris Cohen Brandes of Marquardt & Co. Bard & lt; Berlin & gt; to Gerhart Hauptmann
Letter from Georg Morris Cohen Brandes to Gerhart Hauptmann
Tolvte Bind: Samlede skrifter
Første Bind: Samlede skrifter
Ellevte Bind: Samlede skrifter
Tredie Bind: Samlede skrifter
Attende Bind: Samlede skrifter
Andet Bind: Samlede skrifter
Fjortende Bind (Andet Supplementbind): Samlede skrifter
Syttende Bind: Samlede skrifter
Tiende Bind: Samlede skrifter
Niende Bind: Samlede skrifter
Berlin : Som tysk Rigshovedstad. Erindringer fra et femaarigt Ophold
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
~17 min read
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Georg Brandes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (5)
Available in 39 languages
- Español
- Français
- Deutsch
- 中文
- 日本語
- Русский
- Português
- Italiano
- العربية
- Armenian
- Azerbaijani
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Basque
- Belarusian
- Bulgarian
- Czech
- Danish
- Egyptian Arabic
Show 20 more
via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0