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 university of copenhagen georg morris cohen brandes critic
georg brandes

georg morris cohen brandes -lrb- 4 february 1842 -- 19 february 1927 -rrb- 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 .
