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Søren
Kierkegaard was portrayed twice on Danish
stamps. In 1955 to commemorate his death
- and in 2013 to honour is birth. Post &
Tele Museum.
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A
Danish philosopher and religious thinker
Søren Kierkegaard is a Danish philosopher
and religious thinker - who wrote literary
and philosophical essays that reacted against
Hegelian philosophy (George
Friedrich Hegel) - and the state church
of Denmark - setting the stage for modern
existentialism. Kierkegaard was
born in Copenhagen - and the youngest of
seven children.
He spent his formative years under the influence
of his melancholic and devoutly religious
father - whose teachings stressed the suffering
of Christ.
Søren Kierkegaard went to study philosophy
and theology at the University
of Copenhagen - where his personal despair
grew - leading him to the therapeutic decision
to become a cleric - and marry his fiancée
Regine Olsen - the daughter
of a treasury official.
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