- Rasmus Nielsen. Although Kierkegaard did not want any disciples, he found it
appropriate to initiate one person into his work as an author. The choice fell on a profes-
sor of philosophy, Rasmus Nielsen, a many-talented man with interests in mathematics,
chemistry, botany, and physiology. “I am like the horses who pull the omnibuses,” he said.
“For me it is sufficient rest to be harnessed to a different wagon.” But the Kierkegaard-
ian “omnibus” almost forced him to his knees. Kierkegaard believed that Nielsen stole his
ideas and published them as his own, so he would surely have found it fitting that Nielsen
had himself immortalized with hat in hand.
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