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"I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness." -- Georg Brandes
Georg Morris Cohen Brandes (4 February 1842 — 19 February 1927) was a Danish critic and scholar who had great influence on 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 fantasy in literature. According to Brandes, literature should be an organ "of the great thoughts of liberty and the progress of humanity." His literary goals were shared by many 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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Total Books: 37
Aufgabensammlung Zur Physikalischen Chemie
Aufgabensammlung Zur Physikalischen Chemie [German Edition] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9783527309504
ISBN-10: 3527309500
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Chemisch  technische Stoffwerte Eine Datensammlung
Chemisch Technische Stoffwerte Eine Datensammlung (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9783817110148
ISBN-10: 3817110146
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Det Nittende Aarhundrede Maanedsskrift for Literatur og Kritik
Dramen
Dramen (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9783538053663
ISBN-10: 3538053669
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El Mito De Jesus
El Mito De Jesus (Other)
ISBN-13: 9788470831300
ISBN-10: 8470831305
Genre: Christian Books & Bibles
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Ferdinand Lassalle
Ferdinand Lassalle (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781402167065
ISBN-10: 1402167067
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
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Georg Brandes 18421912
Georg Brandes 18421912 [1912 - Multilingual Edition] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781120286406
ISBN-10: 1120286409
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Indtryk Fra Polen
Indtryk Fra Polen [Danish Edition] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781142136680
ISBN-10: 114213668X
Genres: History, Nonfiction
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Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature Volume 1 The Emigrant Literature
Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature Volume 3 The Reaction in France
Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature Volume 4 Naturalism in England
Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature Volume 5 The Romantic School in France
Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature Volume 6 Young Germany
Memoirs Of A Revolutionist
Memoirs of a Revolutionist (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781605206622
ISBN-10: 1605206628
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Menschen und Werke
Menschen Und Werke [German Edition] (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780543720405
ISBN-10: 0543720403
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Nietzsche
Nietzsche (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9783937834030
ISBN-10: 3937834036
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Nietzsche Un ensayo sobre el radicalismo aristocratico/ An Essay on the aristocratic radicalism
Polen
Polen [1898] (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781437137484
ISBN-10: 1437137482
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Reminiscences of my childhood and youth
Reminiscences of My Childhood and Youth (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781117437354
ISBN-10: 1117437353
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Samlede Skrifter Volume 5
Samlede Skrifter Volume 5 [Danish Edition] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781141873661
ISBN-10: 1141873664
Genres: History, Nonfiction
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Selected Letters
Selected Letters [Series A: Scandinavian Literary History and Criticism] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781870041102
ISBN-10: 1870041100
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Thought on the Turn of the Century [Tanker Ved Arhundredskiftet - Scandinavian Words, 05] (Paperback)