''A Short Life of Kierkegaard'' is a book by Walter Lowrie. The book's first edition was published in 1938 by

Oxford University Press Oxford University Press (OUP) is the university press of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world, and its printing history dates back to the 1480s. Having been officially granted the legal right to print books ...

simply under the title ''Kierkegaard''. The book was influential for being the first English biography which covers both wider and lesser known areas of

Søren Kierkegaard Søren Aabye Kierkegaard ( , , ; 5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855) was a Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher. He wrote critical texts on ...

's life, philosophy, and theology. Lowrie was commissioned by the editor of

Charles Williams to write the biography and to translate into English for the first time several of Kierkegaard's seminal works in full, including ''

Either/Or ''Either/Or'' (Danish: ''Enten – Eller'') is the first published work of the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. Appearing in two volumes in 1843 under the pseudonymous editorship of ''Victor Eremita'' (Latin for "victorious hermit"), it o ...

'' and '' Philosophical Fragments''.

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1938 non-fiction books American biographies Biographies about writers Books about Søren Kierkegaard Oxford University Press books {{philo-bio-book-stub