Philosopher Søren Kierkegaard & Asteroid 7056 Kierkegaard – Copenhagen, Denmark.
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dtrebilc
N 55° 40.469 E 012° 34.856
33U E 347878 N 6172503
This statue of the famous Danish philosopher is in the garden in front of the Royal Library on the small island of Slotsholmen.
Waymark Code: WMHEHZ
Location: Denmark
Date Posted: 07/01/2013
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The Statue
The statue stands to one side of the gardens and shows him in a seated position writing one of his many books.
At the time of my visit an old wreath was round his shoulders. I’m guessing that this was placed on the statue on the 5th May, the anniversary of his birth.
Søren Kierkegaard
According to
Wikipedia “Soren Aabye Kierkegaard ( 5 May 1813 - 11 November 1855 ) was a Danish theologian and philosopher. Kierkegaard is often taken as the largest Danish philosopher and father of existentialism . After Jean-Paul Sartre and the atheistic existentialism called Kierkegaard often as the main figure in the Christian existentialism .”
Asteroid 7056 Kierkegaard
The asteroid “(1989 SE2) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 26, 1989 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory. The asteroid was named in honour of the prolific Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard.”
Eric Walter Elst “is a Belgian astronomer and a prolific discoverer of asteroids, with over 3,000 discovered so far (just 85 of these having been co-discovered).”