Ernst Brandes (3 October 1758 – 13 May 1810) 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.
Works Ueber die Weiber (Leipzig, 1787)
References
Bibliography Carl Haase, "Ernst Brandes in den Jahren 1805 und 1806. Fünf Briefe an den Grafen Münster". In Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte (NsJbLG). 34, 1962, S. 194 Walter Richter, "Der Esperance- und ZN-Orden." in Einst und Jetzt. Jahrbuch 1974 des Vereins für corpsstudentische Geschichtsforschung, S. 30–54