The volume presents the main proceedings from the International Congress on Schleiermacher and Kierkegaard at Copenhagen in October 2003. It reflects profoundly the modern interest in the relationship between those two figures representing the 19th century s philosophy and theology. This title is being published at the same time as volume11 of the series Kierkegaard Studies. Monograph Series and as volume 21 of the series Schleiermacher-Archiv .
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, and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He was made a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog 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.