Ernst Brandes

Ernst Brandes ( born October 3, 1758 in Hannover, † May 13, 1810 ) was a German lawyer in the Age of Enlightenment.

Life

Brandes was the son of the Hanoverian government lawyers and longtime University of speakers at the Hanoverian government for the Georg- August University in Göttingen Georg Friedrich fire. Ernst Brandes was of great importance for the development of conservative thought in the era of the French Revolution. He studied from 1775 to 1778 in Göttingen with Christian Gottlob Heyne.

1776, he became a member of the most influential students Order of Time, the ZN- Order, which was led by Professor Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. This he was also a member after studying in Hannover nor as a member of the local lodge, which is to be regarded as a union of the old boys Göttingen Order. After the progress of the great patron of this Order, the Duke Charles of Mecklenburg in 1784 he took on the instruction of the Government to the Vice-Rector of the University of Göttingen, adjust the ZN- religious there, as a request for liquidation of the ZN- Order in Hanover. The Order had already collected considerable funds from 1700 Reichstalern that should be used in a chemical laboratory at the University of Göttingen. These funds were raised through donations from members continue to build a Leibniz monument in Hanover. The bust of the scientist was made by the Irish sculptor Christopher Hewetson in Italy from white Carrara. It was first issued in 1789 in the house of the Order of August Wilhelm Rehberg member and praised not only by Charlotte Kestner. The Leibniz Temple was the first memorial to a commoner in Hanover and at the same time a monument to the ZN- Order and its members.

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

Works

• Reflections on the feminine gender and its training in social life. 3 volumes, published by brothers cock, Hannover 1802.