Vemb kierkegaard biography
Den berømte danske teolog og filosof Søren Kierkegaard levede hele sit liv i København i første halvdel af den århundrede, hvor man så ham dagligt gå.!
Søren Kierkegaard
BIOGRAPHY AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SØREN KIERKEGAARD
By Gordon Marino
One of Søren Aabye Kierkegaard’s most celebrated works, Concluding Unscientific Postscript, sold 50 copies in his lifetime.
Nevertheless, the 19th-century Danish philosopher was confident that history would offer him a warmer reception than his contemporaries did.
The Swedes were the first to recognize Kierkegaard’s importance, followed by the Germans and the French.
The English-speaking world knew virtually nothing about Kierkegaard until 1908, when a book of selections were rendered into English.
In his youth Kirkeby wanted to study either history or archaeology.
In the late 1930’s, Walter Lowrie discovered Kierkegaard and together with David Swenson, awakened the English-speaking world to Kierkegaard’s significance. Howard and Edna Hong first translated Kierkegaard’s Journals and Papers into English for which they won the National Book Award in 1968.
In the 1970’s, they entered into a contract with Princeton Universit