Brandes, Georg (Morris Cohen) (1842–1927)

Danish writer and literary critic. His studies of European literature were translated into English as Main Currents in Nineteenth-century Literature (six volumes) 1901–05. He produced influential studies on Henrik Ibsen 1898, Shakespeare 1895–96, Goethe 1915, Voltaire 1916–17, Julius Caesar 1918, Michelangelo 1921, and others.

Brandes was born in Copenhagen and lectured at the university there 1871–77. His freethinking views forced him to leave Denmark for Berlin, but in 1883 he was persuaded to return to Denmark.