Søren Kierkegaard

(1813 - 1855)

Søren Kierkegaard entered the University of Copenhagen in 1830 and completed his dissertation, “On the Concept of Irony, with Continual Reference to Socrates,” in 1841. During the next few years Kierkegaard published many of the works he is remembered for today including Either/Or: A Fragment of Life and Fear and Trembling in 1843, and Philosophical Fragments and The Concept of Anxiety in 1844. Beginning in the late 1840s, Kierkegaard wrote works against the Church of Denmark: he declared in Training in Christianity, under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus, the necessity “again to introduce Christianity into Christendom.”