2/4 | Birthday of Georg Brandes
Today in Yiddishkayt… February 4 Birthday of Georg Morris Cohen Brandes, Danish critic and scholar Georg Brandes was born to a Jewish middle class family on February 4, 1842 in Copenhagen. He was educated in law and philosophy at the University of Copenhagen, and in 1862 he won the gold medal of the university for an essay on The Idea of Nemesis among the Ancients. Brandes was influenced by the writings of Heiberg, Søren Kierkegaard, John Stuart Mill and the French critics Hippolyte Taine, Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, and Ernest Renan. He adopted a broad, cosmopolitan view of...
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