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Georg Brandes

1842 - 1927

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georg Brandes has received more than 193,645 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia. Georg Brandes is the 781st most popular writer (up from 888th in 2019), the 91st most popular biography from Denmark (up from 99th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Danish Writer.

Georg Brandes was a Danish critic and writer who is most famous for being the first to introduce Henrik Ibsen to the European public.

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  • 36

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  • 2.25

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Georg Brandes ranks 781 out of 7,302. Before him are Valerius Maximus, Alexander Blok, Eleanor Marx, V. S. Naipaul, Demetrius Vikelas, and Sinclair Lewis. After him are Raymond Carver, Tove Ditlevsen, Ibn al-Muqaffa', Menippus, Theodore Beza, and Pope Dionysius of Alexandria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Georg Brandes ranks 17. Before him are Camille Flammarion, Paul Lafargue, Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria, Okita Sōji, Hermann Cohen, and Arrigo Boito. After him are Vasily Vereshchagin, Giovanni Giolitti, James Dewar, Ambrose Bierce, Sophus Lie, and Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann. Among people deceased in 1927, Georg Brandes ranks 14. Before him are Carlota of Mexico, Gaston Leroux, Andranik, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Kang Youwei, and Hugo Ball. After him are Jerome K. Jerome, Giuseppe Moscati, Yusef of Morocco, Paul Sérusier, Armand Guillaumin, and Gösta Mittag-Leffler.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Georg Brandes ranks 91 out of 1,032. Before him are Christopher I of Denmark (1219), Sven Hassel (1917), Allan Simonsen (1952), Anne of Denmark (1574), Christina of Denmark (1521), and Absalon (1128). After him are Tove Ditlevsen (1917), John, King of Denmark (1455), Canute Lavard (1096), Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864), Niels Gade (1817), and Eric III of Denmark (1100).

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Among WRITERS In Denmark

Among writers born in Denmark, Georg Brandes ranks 8. Before him are Karen Blixen (1885), Karl Adolph Gjellerup (1857), Sigrid Undset (1882), Johannes V. Jensen (1873), Henrik Pontoppidan (1857), and Sven Hassel (1917). After him are Tove Ditlevsen (1917), N. F. S. Grundtvig (1783), Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847), Jussi Adler-Olsen (1950), Martin Andersen Nexø (1869), and Torben Ulrich (1928).

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