Christian Brentano (
January 24 1784 –
October 27 1851) was a
German writer and
Catholic publicist from
Frankfurt. He was the brother of
Clemens Brentano, a famous German poet of the
Romantic school.
Brentano is noted for editing and releasing nine volumes of his brother's work in 1851-55. He survived Clemens, who actually died in 1842 while visiting Christian in Aschaffenburg.