Carl Edvard Cohen Brandes (21 October 1847, in

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– 20 December 1931, in Copenhagen) was a Danish politician, critic and author, and the younger brother of

Georg Brandes 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 ...

and Ernst Brandes. He had a Ph.D. in eastern philology.

Biography

Brandes was a member of the

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for the party Venstre from 1880 to 1894.Skou, Kaare R. (2005). ''Dansk politik A-Å'' . Aschehoug, p. 126. . Along with

Viggo Hørup Viggo Lauritz Bentheim Hørup (22 May 1841 – 15 February 1902) was a Danish politician, journalist and agitator. He was the father of Ellen Hørup (1871-1953). He was one of the most influential politicians of the Danish non-Socialist l ...

and

Christen Berg Christen Poulsen Berg (18 December 1829 – 28 November 1891) was a Danish liberal politician and editor. Biography Christen Berg was born at Fjaltring parish in Lemvig Municipality, Denmark to a farm family of North Jutland. In 1848 he beg ...

, Brandes was editor of the newspaper "Morgenbladet" (literally "the morning paper"), which was associated with the party, from 1880 to 1883, when Berg fired Brandes and Hørup over a conflict on the points of view that the newspaper voiced. In 1884, he cofounded the newspaper ''

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'' with Hørup and

Hermann Bang Herman Joachim Bang (20 April 1857 – 29 January 1912) was a Danish journalist and author, one of the men of the Modern Breakthrough. Biography Bang was born in Asserballe, on the small Danish island of Als, the son of a South Jutlandic vicar ...

. Brandes used his position within the newspaper to promote literature that supported his own political point of view and to criticize literature which contained nationalliberal or Grundtvigian points of view, often in direct conflict with his opinion of their quality, but nevertheless he played a significant part in reforming literary criticism in Denmark. He joined the party Det Radikale Venstre shortly after its founding in 1905, and he was a member of the Landsting for the party from the 1906 election until 1927. He was

Minister of Finance A finance minister is an executive or cabinet position in charge of one or more of government finances, economic policy and financial regulation. A finance minister's portfolio has a large variety of names around the world, such as "treasury", ...

from 1909 to 1910 and again from 1913 to 1920 as a member of the Cabinets of Zahle I and II. He was the father-in-law of Norwegian chemist

Georg Dedichen Georg Maria Dedichen (8 July 1870 – 3 December 1942) was a Norwegian chemist. Biography He was born in Modum as a son of physician Hans Gabriel Sundt Dedichen (1836–99) and his wife Caroline Henriette Fredrikke Thaulow (1836–1917). He was a b ...

, and brother-in-law of Mette-Sophie Gad the wife of French artist

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