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]
References
edit- ^ "Det Etiske Råd" (in Danish). Retrieved 14 August 2010.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Gruppe 8: Religionsvitenskap og teologi" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Archived from the original on 3 September 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2011.
- ^ "borger.dk" (in Danish). Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 14 August 2010.
- ^ "Kristeligt Dagblads Forlag" (in Danish). Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 14 August 2010.
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