Assistens Cemetery in Copenhagen, Denmark, is the burial place of many notable Danes, as well as an important green-space in the Nørrebro district.
Assistens Kirkegård 1
Danish author Hans Christian Andersen's grave (replaced memorial stone)
Søren Kierkegaard
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Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher. He wrote critical texts on
Assistens Cemetery (Copenhagen)
…the Golden Age, in the first half of the 19th century, it became fashionable, and many leading figures of the epoch, including Hans Christian Andersen, Søren Kierkegaard, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, and Christen Købke are buried here. Late in the 19th century, as Assistens Cemetery had itself become crowded, a number…
Unfinished sketch of Kierkegaard by his cousin Niels Christian Kierkegaard, Royal Library, Copenhagen, c. 1840
Søren Kierkegaard.―Hand-drawn copy (1895) of a pencil drawing in the portraiture collection of the Royal Library
When Michael (Mikael) Kierkegaard died on 9 August 1838, Søren had lost both his parents and all his brothers and sisters except for Peter who later became Bishop of Aalborg in the Danish State Lutheran Church.
From left to right: Wolff, Holberg, Hamann, Lessing, Plato and Socrates, all of whom became influences in Kierkegaard's philosophy.