Philosopher · Age of revolutions and empire · Denmark
Søren Kierkegaard
1813–1855
Danish thinker, the father of existentialism, who wrote under pseudonyms about the individual's leap of faith against Hegel's system. Fear and Trembling retells Abraham's trial. He lived 1813 to 1855 and died at forty two.
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- Born
- 1813, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Søren Kierkegaard
- Died
- 1855, Copenhagen.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Søren Kierkegaard
- School
- Existentialism, its Christian founder.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Søren Kierkegaard
- Known for
- The leap of faith, the three stages of life, aesthetic, ethical, religious, and the attack on comfortable Christendom.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Søren Kierkegaard
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