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<p>born August 19, 1808 in Flensburg, Duchy of Schleswig (now Germany); died February 3, 1884 in Copenhagen, Denmark) was a Danish theologian  and academic, who in 1854 gave up his educational career and was made bishop of Seeland, the Danish Primate.
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The "official" eulogy he pronounced upon Bishop Jakob P. Mynster (1775-1854) in 1854, in which he affirmed that the deceased man was one of the authentic truth-witnesses of Christianity to have appeared in the world since apostolic times brought down upon his head the invectives of the philosopher <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8ren_Kierkegaard" class="extiw" title="en:Søren Kierkegaard">Søren Kierkegaard</a> (thus triggering the father of existentialism's attack on official Christendom).</div>
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