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Søren Kierkegaard

1813 - 1855

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Søren Aabye Kierkegaard ( SORR-ən KEER-kə-gard, US also -⁠gor; Danish: [ˈsɶːɐn ˈɔˀˌpyˀ ˈkʰiɐ̯kəˌkɒˀ] ; 5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855) was a Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher. He wrote critical texts on organized religion, Christianity, morality, ethics, psychology, and the philosophy of religion, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony, and parables. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Søren Kierkegaard is the 37th most popular philosopher (up from 39th in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 5th in 2019) and the most popular Danish Philosopher.

Søren Kierkegaard is most famous for his philosophy of existentialism.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Søren Kierkegaard ranks 37 out of 1,267. Before him are Thomas Hobbes, Friedrich Engels, Auguste Comte, Martin Heidegger, Maria Montessori, and Parmenides. After him are Origen, Al-Farabi, Lucretius, Rajneesh, Michel de Montaigne, and Sun Tzu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1813, Søren Kierkegaard ranks 3. Before him are Giuseppe Verdi, and Richard Wagner. After him are David Livingstone, John Snow, Claude Bernard, Ivar Aasen, Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Franz Miklosich, Georg Büchner, Baron Alexander von Bach, and Charles-Valentin Alkan. Among people deceased in 1855, Søren Kierkegaard ranks 2. Before him is Carl Friedrich Gauss. After him are Nicholas I of Russia, Charlotte Brontë, Adam Mickiewicz, Gérard de Nerval, William John Swainson, Adelaide of Austria, Infante Carlos, Count of Molina, Maria Theresa of Austria, William Parry, and Pavel Nakhimov.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Søren Kierkegaard ranks 6 out of 1,032. Before him are Hans Christian Andersen (1805), Cnut the Great (995), Margrethe II of Denmark (1940), Niels Bohr (1885), and Hans Christian Ørsted (1777). After him are Harald Bluetooth (935), Haakon VII of Norway (1872), Frederick IX of Denmark (1899), Margaret I of Denmark (1353), Christian X of Denmark (1870), and Karl Adolph Gjellerup (1857).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Denmark

Among philosophers born in Denmark, Søren Kierkegaard ranks 1. After him are Boetius of Dacia (1240), Ada Adler (1878), and Harald Høffding (1843).

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