Johan Frederik Schlegel (22 January 1817,

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– 8 June 1896, Copenhagen) was a Danish lawyer and civil servant. He was

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of the Danish West Indies from 1855 to 1860, and (Privy Counsellor) from 1860. In 1873, he was elected to the

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. He was married to Regine Olsen, who was formerly engaged to the

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and

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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 ...

.''C. F. Bricka'' (editor), Dansk biografisk Lexikon, first edition, 19 volumes, 1887-1905, Vol. XV. Online edition available: http://runeberg.org/dbl/15/ (pages 173 and 174. Numbered as 175 and 176 in the online edition)

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