Carlos Brandt

Carlos Brandt ( * October 11, 1875, † February 27, 1964 ) was a Venezuelan writer, historian and philosopher.

The son of German immigrants and older brother of the composer Augusto Brandt lived from the fourteenth to the nineteenth year in Germany. Twenty-five year old he turned to Leo Tolstoy, who encouraged him in his literary ambitions. In 1901 he published his first book La belleza de la mujer.

Under the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez he was in custody and then lived in exile in Spain, Italy, Belgium, Holland and finally in the United States. Formative for him to encounter the anarchist Generación Consciente in Barcelona was.

Most of his books were created in the period of exile. In 1913 Fundamentos de la morale, in English translation under the title The vital problem. For the work of the American School of Naturopathy him awarded an honorary doctorate. With this and other works by Brandt is one of the pioneers of ethically justified vegetarianism.

In addition to its historical and philosophical writings also Brandt extensive correspondence with writers such as George Bernard Shaw and Leo Tolstoy is remarkable, as well as with Benedict Lust, one of the founders of naturopathy.

Works

• La Belleza de la Mujer
• El Modernism
• Fundamentos de la morale ( The Vital Problem )
• La Clave del Misterio
• Diógenes, el atleta de la Voluntad
• Giordano Bruno, el Mártir de la historia más auténtico
• Spinoza y el panteísmo
• La Epoca del Terror
• Patología Racional
• Beethoven
• Cervantes, el de la literatura Titán
• El Sendero de la Salud
• El Misterioso Almirante
• Camino de Perfección
• La Paz Universal
• Los Enigma de la Ciencia
• Leonardo da Vinci
• La superstición Medica
• El Vegetarianismo
• El Fundamento de la Moral
• Siluetas Luminosas
• Bajo la tiranía de Cipriano Castro

• Author
• Venezuelan
• Born 1875
• Died in 1964
• Man