“It is not merely in name that this irony bears a fundamental resemblance to Kierkegaard”
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Georg Brandes
Georg Morris Cohen Brandes 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 lit…
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Born 4 February 1842 · Died 19 February 1927 · Q316045
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency: The Tragedy of Georg Brandes
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1927· 1 entry
Died 1927-02-19.
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1914· 1 entry
And Nietzsche's thought was thus able to reach a significant English language audience before World War I
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1909· 1 entry
The lectures were edited and published as the monograph Friedrich Nietzsche, which included the complete Nietzsche/Brandes correspondence as well as two essays in homage to the late Nietzsche's life and thought
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1905· 1 entry
And created the new party Det Radikale Venstre
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1900· 1 entry
Collected his works for the first time in a complete and popular edition and began to work on a German edition, completed in 1902
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1884· 1 entry
Viggo Hørup, Georg Brandes, and his brother Edvard Brandes started the daily newspaper Politiken with the motto: "The paper of greater enlightenment"
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1883· 1 entry
To Copenhagen, where he found a whole new school of writers and thinkers eager to receive him as their leader
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1877· 1 entry
Brandes left Copenhagen and settled in Berlin, taking a considerable part in the aesthetic life of that city
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1872· 1 entry
It was taken as a matter of course that Brandes would fill it
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1871· 1 entry
With the title "Main Currents in 19th-century Literature", he defined the Modern Breakthrough and started the movement that would become Cultural Radicalism
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1870· 1 entry
Published several important volumes, The French Aesthetics of the Present Day, dealing chiefly with Hippolyte Taine, Criticisms and Portraits, and a translation of The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill, whom he
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1866· 1 entry
Contributed to the discussion of the works of Rasmus Nielsen in "Dualism in our Recent Philosophy"
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1864· 1 entry
Brandes was influenced by the writings of Heiberg in criticism and Søren Kierkegaard in philosophy, influences which continued to leave traces on his work
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1862· 1 entry
Won the gold medal of the university for an essay on The Idea of Nemesis among the Ancients
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1842· 1 entry
Born 1842-02-04.
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