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418. Georg Morris Cohen Brandes (1842 – 1927) was born in Copenhagen of middle-class Jewish parents. He was a Danish critic and scholar who had great influence on Scandinavian literature from the 1870s through the turn of the 20th century. He is the author of several books including Jesus, A Myth and The World at War and Voltaire and Friedrich Nietzsche
In the midst of these polemics the critic began to issue the most ambitious of his works, Main Currents in the Literature of the Nineteenth Century, of which four volumes appeared between 1872 and 1875 (English translation, 1901-1905). The brilliant novelty of this criticism of the literature of major European countries at the beginning of the 19th century, and his description of the general revolt against the pseudo-classicism of the 18th century, at once attracted attention outside Denmark.
Brandes claimed that:
‘His spiritual home was on the banks of the Ganga.”
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