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The term properly applied to the priestly family to which was committed the superintendence of the oracle, and came the head of a strongly reactionary minority, Nov. 2, 1848, and represented Pru ia at Warsaw, Oct. 29, 1850, before the Czar of Ru ia, who acted as arbiter between Pru ia and Austria in the difference arising out of Austria's interference in the politics of He e-Ca el. Brandes (brän'des), Georg Morris Cohen. Born at Copenhagen, Feb. 4, 1842. A Danish writer on esthetics and the history of literature. Between 1865 and 1871 (time spent principally in France and Germany) he published "Asthetiske Studier" ("Es thetic Studies", "Kritiker og Portraeter" ("Criticisms and Portraits"), and "Den franske As the tik i vore Dage" ("French Esthetics in Our Day," 1870). Returning to Denmark, he became docent at the University of Copenhagen. His lectures (which afterward appeared under the title "Hovedströmninger i det 19de Aarhundredes Literatur," "Principal Tendencies in the Literature of the Nineteenth Century," 1872-75) brought upon him the charge of radicalism and free-thinking, and accordingly, in 1877, he left