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"I have no single connection with a single other person: I am the most solitary of persons, the (understood in a worldly sense) most powerless" (from the Journals).

Images of Kierkegaard

A Portrait Of Kierkegaard
A Drawing by his second cousin Christian Kierkegaard
A Portrait Of Kierkegaard

A Portrait Of Kierkegaard
A Portrait Of Kierkegaard
A Portrait Of Kierkegaard

A Portrait Of Kierkegaard
A Portrait Of Kierkegaard

A Portrait Of Kierkegaard
A Portrait Of Kierkegaard in a cafe

His Parents Michael Pedersen Kierkegaard and Anne Sørensdatter Lund

Michael Pedersen Kierkegaard
Anne Sørensdatter Lund

His Fiancée Regine Olsen

Regine Olsen
Regine Olsen

His Brother Peter Kierkegaard

Peter Kierkegaard
Peter Kierkegaard

Meïr Aaron Goldschmidt

Meïr Aaron Goldschmidt

Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig

Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig
Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig
Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig

Jakob Mynster

Jakob Mynster
Jakob Mynster

Hans L. Martensen

Hans L. Martensen
Hans L. Martensen

A Statue of Kierkegaard, His Tomb, and Its Inscription

A statue of Kierkegaard
The Inscription

Translation of inscription: Søren Aabye Kierkegaard. Born May 5, 1813. Died November 11, 1855. Just a short while, then I have won. Then the whole struggle entirely disappears. Then I can rest in halls of roses and talk with my Jesus without ceasing.

Kierkegaard's Tomb and Its Inscription

Kierkegaard's Cupboard and Desk

Kierkegaard's Cupboard

The following text was supplied by a respondent who took the photo on the left at The Søren Kierkegaard Collection in Copenhagen City Museum. The small cupboard is connected to the period when Kierkegaard broke off his relationship with Regine Olsen.

"I have had a palisander cupboard made. It was while I lived in Nørregade on the first floor. It is constructed according to my design and this because of something my beloved said in her agony. She said that she would willingly thank me all her life if she had to live in a little cupboard. With an eye to this, it is constructed without shelves. - Everything is kept carefully in the cupboard, everything that reminds me of her and that could remind me of her. There is also a copy of each of the pseudonymous works for her. Regularly only two copies of these were printed on vellum, one for her and one for me."

Kierkegaard's Desk