Brentano is an

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surname. Notable people with the surname include: *

Antonie Brentano Antonie Brentano (28 May 1780 in Vienna – 12 May 1869 in Frankfurt), born Johanna Antonie Josefa Edle von Birkenstock, known as Toni, was a philanthropist, art collector, arts patron, and close friend of Beethoven, being the dedicatee of his " ...

, philanthropist *

August Brentano August Brentano (undated) August Brentano (1828''-''1886) was a New York City newspaper dealer. Background August Brentano was born on December 23, 1828, in Hohenems, Austria. He immigrated to New York in 1851. Career Brentano started a busin ...

, bookseller *

Bernard von Brentano Bernard von Brentano (15 October 1901, in Offenbach am Main – 29 December 1964, in Wiesbaden) was a German writer, poet, playwright, storyteller, novelist, essayist and journalist. Life Brentano was a son of the Hessian Interior and Justice ...

, novelist *

Christian Brentano Christian Brentano (24 January 1784, Frankfurt – 27 October 1851, Frankfurt) was a German writer and Catholic publicist. He was the brother of Clemens Brentano and Bettina von Arnim, famous German writers of the Romantic school, and the father ...

, German writer *

Clemens Brentano Clemens Wenzeslaus Brentano (also Klemens; pseudonym: Clemens Maria Brentano ; ; 9 September 1778 – 28 July 1842) was a German poet and novelist, and a major figure of German Romanticism. He was the uncle, via his brother Christian, of Franz a ...

, poet and novelist, brother of Bettina von Arnim (born Brentano) *

Franz Brentano Franz Clemens Honoratus Hermann Josef Brentano (; ; 16 January 1838 – 17 March 1917) was an influential German philosopher, psychologist, and former Catholic priest (withdrawn in 1873 due to the definition of papal infallibility in matters of F ...

, philosopher, influenced phenomenology and gestalt psychology * Franz Funck-Brentano, French historian and librarian *

Heinrich von Brentano di Tremezzo Heinrich Joseph Maximilian Johann Maria von Brentano di Tremezzo (20 June 1904 – 14 November 1964), known professionally as Heinrich von Brentano, was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He served as Federal Minister ...

, politician of the Christian Democratic Union (West Germany) *

Lorenzo Brentano Lorenzo Brentano (November 4, 1813 – September 18, 1891) was a German revolutionary and journalist who served as President of the Free State of Baden during the 1849 Baden Revolution. Following the failure of the revolutions, he and many o ...

, politician *

Lujo Brentano Lujo Brentano (; ; 18 December 1844 – 9 September 1931) was an eminent German economist and social reformer. Biography Lujo Brentano, born in Aschaffenburg into a distinguished German Catholic intellectual family (originally of Italian descen ...

, economist, reformer * Marianne Ehrmann-Brentano, novelist * Robert Brentano, American historian *

Theodore Brentano Theodore Brentano (March 29, 1854 – July 2, 1940) was an American attorney and judge and the first U.S. ambassador to Hungary (his full title was ''Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary''). He was appointed to the position by Warren ...

, American attorney, judge, and first U.S. ambassador to Hungary, son of Lorenzo * Théophile Funck-Brentano, Luxembourgian-French sociologist

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