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PHILOSOPHER

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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Søren Kierkegaard has received more than 6,715,546 page views. His biography is available in 108 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 106 in 2019). Søren Kierkegaard is the 39th most popular philosopher (down from 34th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Denmark 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 39 out of 1,081. Before him are Anaximander, Al-Ghazali, Diogenes, Laozi, Rajneesh, and David Hume. After him are Protagoras, Thomas More, Maria Montessori, Sun Tzu, Plutarch, and Michel de Montaigne.

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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, Claude Bernard, Ivar Aasen, Georg Büchner, John Snow, Henry Bessemer, Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Charles-Valentin Alkan, and Franz Miklosich. 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, Infante Carlos, Count of Molina, Adelaide of Austria, Pavel Nakhimov, François Rude, Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg, and François Magendie.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Søren Kierkegaard ranks 3 out of 893. Before him are Hans Christian Andersen (1805) and Hans Christian Ørsted (1777). After him are Niels Bohr (1885), Margrethe II of Denmark (1940), Ivar the Boneless (900), Björn Ironside (800), Vitus Bering (1681), Ole Rømer (1644), Karl Adolph Gjellerup (1857), Cnut the Great (995), and Christian VII of Denmark (1749).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Denmark

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

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