The Global Dane: Writing Soren Kierkegaard's Biography*

Authors

Joakim Garff

Keywords

biography, Kierkegaard

Abstract

When Professor C.K.F. Molbech was asked the year after Kierkegaard's death to sketch a biographical portrait for a planned German translation of Either/Or, he went to his friend, the philosopher Hans Brochner, for advice and suggestions. Brochner, who knew the deceased personally, pondered it and then replied: When one restricts oneself to external events, there is of course very little to say about his life at all: he was born May 5, 1813, he was a student at the University in 1830, took his degree in theology in 1840, he submitted his doctoral thesis in 1841, and he died in 1855. These are more or less all the external facts of a biographical nature that can be provided, and they are not interesting.1

Recommended Citation

Garff, Joakim (2006) "The Global Dane: Writing Soren Kierkegaard's Biography*," The Bridge: Vol. 29: No. 2, Article 15.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/thebridge/vol29/iss2/15