Søren kierkegaard born
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What was this “thorn in the flesh,” to which Kierkegaard often alludes? The phrase is St. Paul’s, in II Corinthians 12:7: “And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me.” Because his conversion experience on the road to Damascus, according to the description in Acts, threw him to the ground, it has been conjectured that Paul was an epileptic. Garff does some fascinating detective work in investigating the possibility of the “falling sickness” as Kierkegaard’s shameful infirmity and the cause, as with Dostoyevsky, of his fits of exaltation and of his graphomania. A contemporary, Professor Frederik Christian Sibbern, recorded rumors of epilepsy, and in one known instance Kierkegaard abruptly fell down, but the most provocative clue is the hospital notation that the patient used Valeriana officinalis. Kierkegaard’s physician, Oluf Lundt Bang, in his “Handbook for Therapy,” wrote that “marriage must be discouraged” for persons suffering from a host of diseases, incl
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Søren Kierkegaard
Danish theologian, philosopher, poet and social critic (1813–1855)
"Kierkegaard" redirects here. For the surname, see Kierkegaard (surname).
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (SORR-ən KEER-kə-gard, -gor; Danish:[ˈsɶːɐnˈɔˀˌpyˀˈkʰiɐ̯kəˌkɒˀ]ⓘ; 5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855[2]) was a Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first Christian existentialist philosopher.[3][4] He wrote critical texts on organized religion, Christianity, morality, ethics, psychology, and the philosophy of religion, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony, and parables. Much of his philosophical work deals with the issues of how one lives as a "single individual", giving priority to concrete human reality over abstract thinking and highlighting the importance of personal choice and commitment.
Kierkegaard's theological work focuses on Christian ethics, the institution of the Church, the differences between purely objective proofs of Christianity, the infinite qualitative d
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Troels Troels-Lund
Danish historian
Troels Frederik Troels-Lund (5 September 1840 – 12 February 1921) was a Danish historian.
Biography
Troels-Lund was born in Copenhagen, the youngest son of Henrik Ferdinand and Anna Cathrine Lund. Henrik Ferdinand's first marriage was to Søren Kierkegaard's sister Petrea, from 1828 until her death in 1834.[1] Henrik Ferdinand was also the brother of the naturalist Peter Wilhelm Lund.
Troels-Lund entered the University of Copenhagen in 1858. After studying theology for a while he abandoned it for the study of history. From 1870 to 1875 he was an assistant at the Gehejmearkivet, and an instructor in history at the Royal Danish Military Academy starting in 1874, serving as a full professor there from 1888 to 1900.[4]
His most prominent work, Dagligt Liv i Norden i det sekstende Aarhundrede (transl. Daily Life in the North in the Sixteenth Century), was published in 14 volumes from 1879 to 1901. The work vividly detailed everyday life in sixteenth century Scandinavia, and is considered a character
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