Søren Kierkegaard (World Philosophers and Their Works)
Early Life
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was the last of seven children born to Michael Pedersen Kierkegaard and his second wife, Ane Sørensdatter (Lund); she had been the maid of Michael’s first wife, who died childless after two years of marriage. The elder Kierkegaard, an affluent businessperson, had been born in poverty and virtual servitude, rising by dint of hard work and good fortune to the comfortable status the family enjoyed at Søren’s birth.
Despite such prosperity, the Kierkegaard household was haunted by early death. Two of Søren’s siblings died before...
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