4 See Supplement, p. 138.
1 W. H. Auden, “A Knight of Doleful Countenance,” New Yorker, May 25, 1968, p. 41.
2 Kierkegaard and Møller had been students at the University of Copenhagen in the 1830s; Goldschmidt, a young journalist in Næstved, came to Copenhagen in 1840 and started The Corsair that year.
3 Paul Rubow, Goldschmidt og Nemesis (Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1968), p. 118 (ed. tr.).
4 See Supplement, p. 138.
5 See Supplement, p. 139.
6 See Supplement, pp. 92-93.
7 See Supplement, p. 139.
8 See Supplement, p. 141. Later, in a letter (January 8, 1879) to Otto Borchsenius, Goldschmidt confirms that Kierkegaard “called me to esthetics and comic writing.” Breve fra og til Meïr Goldschmidt, I–II, ed. Morten Borup (Copenhagen: 1963), Letter 411, I, p. 225 (ed. tr.).
9 See Supplement, pp. 141-42.
10 See Supplement, pp. 93-95.
11 See Supplement, p. 96.
12 Ibid.
13 Rikard Magnussen, Det særlige Kors (Copenhagen: 1942), p. 161 (ed. tr.).
14 Ibid., pp. 164-65 (ed. tr.).
15 Georg Brandes, Søren Kierkegaard, Samlede Skrifter, I-XVIII (Copenhagen: 1899-1910), II, p. 378 (ed. tr.).
16 Magnussen, p. 165 (ed. tr.).
17 Fra det gamle Kongens Kjøbenhavn, I–II (Copenhagen: 1880-81), I, p. 206.
18 Ibid., p. 207 (ed. tr.).
19 Meïr Goldschmidt, Livs Erindringer og Resultater, I–II (Copenhagen: 1877), I, p. 297 (ed. tr.).
20 See JP VI, note 2967.
21 Rubow, p. 117 (ed. tr.).
22 Goldschmidt, Erindringer, I, p. 301.
23 Rubow, p. 117. Steffens’s lectures on German romantic philosophy and literature in Copenhagen (1802-1804) were overwhelmingly impressive to many of the Danish intelligentsia. The most famous relationship developed between Steffens and the poet Oehlenschläger, who spent many hours in conversation with Steffens about romantic nature philosophy. Oehlenschläger’s poem “Guldhornene” was the immediate and prophetic result.
24 “Corsaren og Goldschmidt,” Arena, et polemisk-æsthetisk Blad, ed. P. L. Møller, no. 3-4, June 1843, pp. 49-83.
25 Meïr Goldschmidts Breve til hans Familie, I–II, ed. Morten Borup (Copenhagen: 1964), I, p. 18.
26 Magnussen, p. 163 (ed. tr.).
27 Frithiof Brandt, “P. L. Møller. Modellen til Johannes Forføreren?” in Den unge Søren Kierkegaard (Copenhagen: 1929), pp. 160-304. Cf. The Point of View, KW XXII (SV XIII 277-78 fn.).
28 P. 45.
29 Kierkegaard: Letters and Documents, KW XXV, Letter 121, to P. L. Møller:
Christmas Day [1845]
Dear Sir:
Through Mr. Giødwad I received your highly esteemed and confidential note today. My reply to you and to anyone who makes or has made a proposal of this sort: I never have anything completed, and I never bind myself with promises.
Yours respectfully,
Victor Eremita.
30 See Supplement, pp. 96-104.
31 In Archives, Royal Library, Copenhagen, NkS 3217, 4°, quoted by Helge Toldberg, “Goldschmidt og Kierkegaard,” in Festskrift til Paul Rubow (Copenhagen: 1956), p. 235 (ed. tr.).
32 Brandes, II, pp. 376-77 (ed. tr.).
33 See Supplement, p. 145.
34 See pp. 38-46.
35 See p. 46.
36 Magnussen, p. 164 (ed. tr.).
37 See Supplement, pp. 200, 207, 210, 218 (Pap. VII1 B 69, 72, A 98, 214).
38 See Supplement, p. 194 (Pap. VII1 B 55).
39 See Supplement, p. 208 (Pap. VII1 A 98); see also Supplement, p. 204 (Pap. VII1 B 71).
40 Goldschmidt, Erindringer, I, p. 279.
41 Ibid., I, pp. 371-72.
42 See Supplement, p. 96.
43 See Supplement, pp. 157-58 (Pap. VI B 192).
44 Elias Bredsdorff, Goldschmidts “Corsaren” (Copenhagen: Sinistra-Klubben, 1962), p. 99 (ed. tr.).
45 See Supplement, p. 208 (Pap. VII1 A 98).
46 See Supplement, pp. 178, 196 (Pap. VII1 B 55, 57).
47 See Supplement, p. 237 (Pap. X1 A 123).
48 See Supplement, pp. 143, 176 (Pap. VII1 B 41).
49 See p. 47.
50 See Supplement, p. 143.
51 See Supplement, p. 141.
52 Toldberg, p. 220 (ed. tr.).
53 See pp. 38-46; Supplement, p. 159 (Pap. VII1 B 5).
54 See Supplement, p. 213 (Pap. VII1 A 99).
55 See Supplement, p. 235 (Pap. X1 A 98).
56 See Supplement, pp. 149-50.
57 See Supplement, p. 224 (Pap. VIII1 A 421).
58 See Supplement, pp. 224, 233 (Pap. VIII1 A 420; X1 A 98).
59 Two Ages, KW XIV, p. 74 (SV VIII 70).
60 Ibid., p. 81 (SV VIII 76).
61 See Supplement, p. 228, and note 449.
62 See Supplement, pp. 228-29 (Pap. IX A 303).
63 Magnussen, pp. 166-67 (ed. tr.).
64 See Supplement, p. 213 (Pap. VII1 A 99).
65 Ibid.
66 See Supplement, p. 214 (Pap. VII1 A 99). On Kierkegaard’s theory of indirect communication, see JP I 617-81; Postscript, KW XII (SV VII 55-62, 203-11, [545-49]).
67 See Supplement, pp. 96-104.
68 See pp. 38-46.
69 See p. 46.
70 See Supplement, pp. 104-05.
71 See Supplement, pp. 105-08.
72 See Supplement, pp. 108-12.
73 Berlingske Tidende had already (May 6, 1845) linked Kierkegaard with some of the pseudonyms, and The Corsair had printed a piece on that attribution (see p. 24 and note 55). Møller’s article in Gæa had made direct reference to Kierkegaard and B.T. (see Supplement, pp. 97-100, especially p. 99). See Supplement, pp. 112-15.
74 See pp. 47-50.
75 See p. 47.
76 See p. 46.
77 See Supplement, pp. 117-23.
78 See Supplement, p. 117, and note 121.
79 See Supplement, p. 147.
80 See Supplement, pp. 148-49.
81 Brandes, II, p. 378 (ed. tr.).
82 Bredsdorff, p. 107 (ed. tr.).
83 See Supplement, pp. 157-208, for an extensive selection of pieces written for possible publication.
84 Two Ages, pp. 61, 74, 81, 94-95, KW XIV (SV VIII 58, 70, 76, 88-89).
85 The Point of View, KW XXII (SV XIII 498).
86 See Supplement, pp. 208-41, for an extensive selection of journal entries on the Corsair affair.
87 See Supplement, pp. 184, 196 (Pap. VII1 B 55, 58).
88 See Supplement, p. 149, and notes.
89 “A First and Last Declaration,” Concluding Unscientific Postscript. The official publication date was February 27, 1846. In a note (see Supplement, pp. 196-97; Pap. VII1 B 59) added to the written challenge, Kierkegaard refers to a review of Postscript in The Corsair, no. 284, February 27, 1846. Therefore the silent meeting of the two men must have come shortly after the unpublished challenge was written.
90 See Supplement, pp. 146, 148.
91 See Supplement, pp. 149-50.
92 P. M. Mitchell, A History of Danish Literature (New York: American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1958), p. 166.
93 Goldschmidt to Otto Borchsenius, December 25, 1878, Breve fra og til Meïr Goldschmidt, Letter 407, I, p. 219 (ed. tr.).
94 P. L. Møller, “Søren Kierkegaard,” Kritiske Skizzer fra Aarene 1840-47, I–II (Copenhagen: 1847), II, pp. 254-55 (ed. tr.).
95 See Supplement, pp. 104-05.
96 See pp. 38-46.
97 Møller, Kritiske Skizzer, II, p. 264.
98 Ibid., p. 262.
99 Ibid., pp. 263-64. See Either/Or, I, KW III (SV I 332).
100 See Supplement, p. 203 (Pap. VII1 B 71).
101 See Supplement, p. 150. The year of Møller’s departure is sometimes given as 1846. Goldschmidt’s recollection conforms to his statement in Nord og Syd, I, 1848, p. 172 (written in December 1847): “Mr. P. L. Møller has now officially announced that he will make a long foreign tour.”
102 See Supplement, p. 143.
103 See Supplement, p. 151.
104 See Supplement, pp. 151-52.
105 Goldschmidt, Livs Erindringer og Resultater, I–II, ed. Morten Borup (Copenhagen: 1965), I, p. 263 (ed. tr.).
106 Ibid., p. 264.
107 Ibid., p. 265.
108 Ibid., p. 268.
109 Ibid., p. 255.
110 Breve fra og til Meïr Goldschmidt, Letter 181, I, p. 296 (ed. tr.). The letter is dated May 1, 1851, five months and five days before the poet Carsten Hauch was named professor of esthetics.
111 See Supplement, p. 46.
112 Rubow, p. 118 (ed. tr.).
113 See Supplement, p. 46.
114 See, for example, the review in Berlingske Tidende (May 6, 1845) and a sequel in The Corsair (May 23, 1845) in note 55, pp. 274-76. See also Supplement, pp. 95-96.
115 See p. 46 and note 122.
116 See Supplement, pp. 191, 198-99, 207 (Pap. VII1 B 55, 69, 72).
117 See Supplement, pp. 143, 228 (Pap. IX A 92).
118 See Supplement, p. 208 (Pap. VII1 A 98); also pp. 228, 236 (Pap. IX A 92; X1 A 98).
119 Either/Or, I, KW III (SV I 10).
120 From a draft of Goldschmidt’s autobiography, Livs Erindringer og Resultater, ed. Borup, I, pp. 272-73 (ed. tr.).
121 See Supplement, pp. 208-09, 217-18, 220, 222-23, 225-27, 229, 237-38 (Pap. VII1 A 98, 107; VIII1 A 99, 163, 175, 458, 544; IX A 64, 370; X1 A 123, 177).
122 See Supplement, pp. 237-38 (Pap. X1 A 177), and note 480; The Moment, KW XXIII (SV XIII 108).
123 JP II 2046; VI 6509 (Pap. X5 A 121; X2 101); see Supplement, p. 236 (Pap X1 A 120).
124 See Supplement, p. 220 (Pap. VIII1 A 99).
125 See Supplement, p. 222 (Pap. VIII1 A 163), and note 436.
126 Ibid.
127 Goldschmidt, Erindringer (1877), I, p. 255 (ed. tr.).
128 See Supplement, pp. 209, 214 (Pap. VII1 A 98, 99).
129 By Johan Thomas Lundbye (1818-1848).
130 JP VI 6893 (Pap. X5 A 146).
131 JP VI 6548 (Pap. X2 A 251); see Supplement, p. 228 (Pap. IX A 92).
132 JP VI 6373 (Pap. X1 A 187). See On My Work as an Author, KW XXII (SV XIII 495); The Point of View, KW XIII (SV XIII 539, 543, 578).
133 Magnussen, p. 163 (ed. tr.).
134 Only an explanation of the presence of the letters and the article in the Addenda is necessary here. The Danish editors of Kierkegaards Samlede Værker state that the authorship is doubtful because the writing is not quite like Kierkegaard’s. They included the pieces, however, because of the testimony of others. H. P. Barfod, the first editor of Af Søren Kierkegaards Efterladte Papirer, was convinced on internal grounds that the letters were by Kierkegaard and, for lack of other evidence, included them in an appendix (Af Søren Kierkegaards Efterladte Papirer, I-IX, ed. H. P. Barfod and H. Gottsched (Copenhagen: 1869-81), I (1833-43), pp. 364, 478-86. H. P. Holst, editor of Ny Portefeuille, was his authority for including “Literary Quicksilver” (ibid., pp. 364, 491-506). Kierkegaard does not include the letters or “Literary Quicksilver” in a list drawn up in 1848 (JP VI 6202; Pap. IX A 167). But the omission is not determinative, inasmuch as Victor Eremita’s letter to Professor Heiberg is also omitted from that list.
135 See p. 5.
136 See p. 24 and note 55.
137 Either/Or, I, KW III (SV I 29-113).
138 The Point of View, KW XXII (SV XIII 522).
139 Hans Lassen Martensen, Af mit Levnet, I–II (Copenhagen: 1883), I, pp. 23-24 (ed. tr.).
140 Hans Lassen Martensen, Leilighedstaler (Copenhagen: 1844), p. 20 (ed. tr.).