Niels Jørgen Cappelørn (born 1945) is a Danish theologian,

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 ...

scholar and former director of

Søren Kierkegaard Research Center Søren Kierkegaard Research Center ( da, Søren Kierkegaard Forskningscentret) at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark is an independent foundation headed by Dr. Niels Jørgen Cappelørn, and is dedicated to the research and promotion of 19th- ...

at the University of Copenhagen. He has written and edited a number of books on Kierkegaard, and was editor of ''Index til Søren Kierkegaards Papirer, bind XIV-XVI (1975–78)''. He was Director of the Danish Bible Society from 1980 to 1993. Professor Cappelørn is a member of the Danish Council of Ethics, a body which provides advice to the Danish Parliament and raises public debate about ethical problems in the field of biomedicine, and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He was made a Knight of the

Order of the Dannebrog The Order of the Dannebrog ( da, Dannebrogordenen) is a Danish order of chivalry instituted in 1671 by Christian V. Until 1808, membership in the order was limited to fifty members of noble or royal rank, who formed a single class known a ...

in 1992. A festschrift in his honor, ''At Være Sig Selv Nærværende'' (''To Be Present to Oneself'') was published in 2010, on the occasion of Professor Cappelørn's 65th birthday.

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Niels Jørgen Cappelørn
1945 births Living people Danish Protestant theologians Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Knights of the Order of the Dannebrog 20th-century Protestant theologians {{Denmark-academic-bio-stub