Ernst Brandes

Deceased Person

1758 – 1810

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Who was Ernst Brandes?

Ernst Brandes was a Hannoverian lawyer, official, writer, and scholar.

Brandes witnessed the French Revolution as a journalist. Influenced by Edmund Burke, he is regarded by commentators as a voice of conservatism and Anglophile political views during the Enlightenment.

His 1787 treatise Ueber die Weiber argued against the emerging feminist notion of the equality of the sexes.

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Born
Oct 3, 1758
Died
May 13, 1810

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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