Niels Jørgen Cappelørn Explained

Niels Jørgen Cappelørn (born 1945) is a Danish theologian, Søren Kierkegaard scholar and former director of Søren Kierkegaard Research Center 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,[1] and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[2] He was made a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog in 1992.[3] 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.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Det Etiske Råd. Danish. 14 August 2010.
  2. Web site: Gruppe 8: Religionsvitenskap og teologi. Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Norwegian. 9 January 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20180903215147/http://www.dnva.no/c26849/artikkel/vis.html?tid=40114. 3 September 2018. dead.
  3. Web site: borger.dk. Danish. 14 August 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110716132508/https://www.borger.dk/foa/Sider/Default.aspx?fk=26&foaid=10244574&paid=12650619. 16 July 2011.
  4. Web site: Kristeligt Dagblads Forlag. Danish. 14 August 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110719125117/http://forlag.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/artikel/356751:Forlag--At-vaere-sig-selv-naervaerende. 19 July 2011.