Søren Kierkegaard

Søren Kierkegaard was born in Copenhagen on 5 May 1813, the last of the seven children of the merchant Michael Pedersen Kierkegaard, a man of sombre piety, and of Ane Sørensdatter Lund, a former servant of the household. He studied theology and in 1841 defended a thesis on the concept of irony; the same year, he broke off his engagement to Regine Olsen and went to Berlin to attend Schelling's lectures. Living on his father's inheritance, he published most of his books under assumed names, attacked the Danish Church and died in Copenhagen on 11 November 1855, aged forty-two.

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• EssayEither/OrEnten – EllerSøren Kierkegaard · 1843Literature