Georg Brandes (1842-1927) was a prominent Danish and European literary critic particularly between about 1870 and 1900. He is credited with lifting Søren Kierkegaard's writings out of relative obscurity a quarter century after the philosopher's death by introducing it to Germany, where it was propagated further to France, finally to be discovered by the existentialist philosophers who so influenced the twentieth century. The bust here sits at the entrance of Copenhagen's King's Gardens.