Soren Kierkegaard

the academic debates of his well-educated sons. “The most gifted person I havemet,”PeterChristianlaterdeemedhim,whilethetheologi ...

the city gates to a nearby country palace, or down to the seashore, or here and there on the city streets, wherever Johannes wis ...

aside in passages that emphasize that his father was the best and most loving offathers—asinthisjournalentryfromJune9,1847,where ...

some ones and the less gruesome ones—we are thus directed to examine these writings, suspiciously and unremittingly, once again. ...

dal’s venerable building in Klareboderne, had been founded in 1787 by the Society for Civic Virtue in order to provide the upper ...

and saying, “When God speaks, I keep silent”; immediately thereafter, however, he would add, “But when I speak, you keep silent. ...

leading to all sorts of cheap jokes. “I remember very well, from my child- hood on,” Kierkegaard wrote a generation later, “how ...

never first; that honor was reserved for Anger, who remembered Bind- esbøll’s comment from their last year at school: “Kierkegaa ...

three of Hebrew, three of mathematics, five of history, six of Greek, six of composition, and thirteen of Latin. When Søren Aaby ...

cine and natural history, and had written two first-prize academic essays in one year, the first concerning the circulatory syst ...

islandofLolland,stayingatthehomeofBishopP.O.Boisen,aGrundtvig- ian. Peter Christian was good friends with Boisen’s sons, also th ...

There was, however, one person who mthe devilish debater could not vanquish, namely his father back home, whose letters function ...

Peter Christian had visited their brother, but he had been unable to learn whether Rudelbach had managed to read the dissertatio ...

good mind, open to everything that requires first-rate attention, but for a long time he was very childish and quite lacking in ...

Included with the examination certificate was a “Certificate of Matricu- lation into the University” issued to Severinus Aabye K ...

Alma Mater After the matriculation examinations, which were administered at the uni- versityandcalledthe“firstexamination,”there ...

semestershedevoted himselftoseveralbooksofthe NewTestament,writ- ing commentaries on them and translating them into Latin, the l ...

other respects he was quite devoted to me at that time.” Later on, this devotionwouldbeveryhardtodetect,butatthebeginningtherela ...

the desperation overthe supposed sinfulness of everything,the disgust with the endless meting out of punishments in his father’s ...

Teacher in the Christian Church?With its trembling emotion, the very title itself resounds with typical Lindbergian indignation. ...