Ernst Brandes

This article deals with the member of the ZN order during the Enlightenment. On the politician in Weimar, see Ernst Brandes (politician) .

Ernst Brandes (born October 3, 1758 in Hanover ; † May 13, 1810 ibid) was a German lawyer during the Enlightenment.

Life

Brandes was the son of the Hanoverian administrative lawyer and long-standing university advisor to the Hanoverian government for the Georg-August University in Göttingen, Georg Friedrich Brandes . Ernst Brandes was of great importance for the development of conservative thought in the age of the French Revolution . He studied from 1775 to 1778 in Göttingen with Christian Gottlob Heyne .

In 1776 he became a member of the most influential student order of the time, the ZN Order , which was led by Professor Johann Friedrich Blumenbach . Even after his studies in Hanover, he was still a member of the local lodge, which is to be regarded as an old gentlemen's association of the Göttingen Order. After the departure of the great patron of this order, Duke Karl von Mecklenburg in 1784, he took the government's instruction to the Vice-Rector of the University of Göttingen to discontinue the ZN order there as a request to liquidate the ZN order in Hanover. The Order had considerable funds from 1700 Reichstalern collected that should be used for a chemical laboratory at the University of Göttingen. These funds were further increased through donations from members in order to erect a Leibniz monument in Hanover. The bust of the scholar was made in Italy from white Carrara by the Irish sculptor Christopher Hewetson . It was first exhibited in 1789 in the house of the order member August Wilhelm Rehberg and was not only praised by Charlotte Kestner . The Leibniz Temple was the first memorial for a commoner in Hanover and at the same time a memorial for the ZN order and its members.

In 1806 he was elected a foreign member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

The Brandes family belonged to the so-called pretty families in the 18th and 19th centuries .

Works

• Reflections on the female sex and its formation in social life . 3 volumes, Verlag Gebrüder Hahn, Hanover 1802.
• About some previous consequences of the French Revolution, with regard to Germany , Christian Ritscher, Hanover and others. Osnabrück, 1793, online .
• Political reflections on the French Revolution , Johann Michael Mauke, Jena, 1790, online .
• About women . Weidmann's heirs and empire, Leipzig 1787.

literature

• Erich Botzenhart :  Brandes, Ernst. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 518 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Carl Haase : Ernst Brandes in the years 1805 and 1806. Five letters to the Count of Münster. In: Lower Saxony Yearbook for State History (NsJbLG). Vol. 34, 1962, p. 194.
• Carl Haase: Ernst Brandes 1758–1810 (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Vol. 32; = Lower Saxony Biographies. Vol. 4). 2 volumes. Hildesheim 1973 f.
• Hans-Christof Kraus : Ernst Brandes and the German Zeitgeist around 1800. In: Journal for historical science . 47: 308-328 (1999).
• Walter Richter: The Esperance and ZN medals. In: then and now . 1974, pp. 30-54.
• Ferdinand Spehr :  Brandes, Ernst . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 241 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ernst Brandes in the catalog of the German National Library
• Article on the homepage of the FU Berlin ( Memento from August 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Antiquarian book article about Brandes publications

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Totok-Haase: Leibniz, His life, his work, his world Hannover 1966, p. 88
2. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 48.
3. ↑ Klaus Mlynek : Pretty families. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 310.