Brandes, Edvard

Brandes, Edvard

▪ Danish author and politician
in full  Carl Edvard Cohen Brandes  
born Oct. 21, 1847, Copenhagen, Den.
died Dec. 20, 1931, Copenhagen

      writer and politician who was an important figure in the Danish left coalition that struggled for full parliamentary government in the final decades of the 19th century.

      Edvard Brandes was a literary critic like his celebrated brother Georg Brandes but is primarily known for his activities as a Folketing (lower house) member of the Parliament from 1880 to World War I, during which he served as minister of finance in the Radical Party government (1913–20). Because of his Jewish origin, his atheism, and his “European,” rather than “Danish,” outlook, Brandes was, from the beginning of his political career, at odds with the more moderate faction of the left coalition that formed the Left Reform Party in the late 1890s. His influence greatly affected the Radical Party, which broke away from the Left Reform in 1905.

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