Professor Bruce Kirmmse
ST. OLAF COLLEGE HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENT
Thursday, May 5, 2022
Chapel Service with Rev. Dr. Chris Thomforde
11:00 a.m.
Boe Memorial Chapel
Process to The Hong Kierkegaard Library in Steensland Hall
11:20 a.m.
Honorary Degree Ceremony
11:45-12:15
Reception to follow
Bruce H. Kirmmse is professor emeritus from Connecticut College, where he
taught for many years. In the 1990’s, he also taught at the University of Copenhagen while
serving as director of the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, where he is now a senior
research scholar. He is the author of Kierkegaard in Golden Age Denmark (Indiana, 1990),
Encounters With Kierkegaard (Princeton, 1996), as well as many articles, and has done
numerous translations, including Joakim Garff’s Søren Kierkegaard: A Biography (Princeton,
2005) and Kierkegaard’s The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air (Princeton, 2018).
Kirmmse also served as general editor and principal translator for Kierkegaard’s Journals
and Notebooks (12 vols., Princeton, 2007–2020). In 2013, in recognition of his work on
Kierkegaard and on other aspects of Danish culture, Kirmmse was made a Knight of the
Dannebrog. His translation of Fear and Trembling was published by Liveright/Norton in
November 2021, and his translation of The Sickness unto Death is forthcoming from the same
press early in 2023. At present, Kirmmse is working on a new translation of Kierkegaard’s
Works of Love. Kirmmse divides his time between Copenhagen and Randolph,
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