Peter Tudvad (born 27 April 1966 in Holme south of

Århus Aarhus (, , ; officially spelled Århus from 1948 until 1 January 2011) is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus municipality, Aarhus Municipality. It is located on the eastern shore of Jutland in the Kattegat sea and app ...

) is a Danish

Søren Kierkegaard Søren Aabye Kierkegaard ( , ; ; 5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855) was a Danes, Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher. He wrote critical tex ...

scholar, author, philosopher and social critic, formerly at the

Søren Kierkegaard Research Center Søren Kierkegaard Research Center () at the University of Copenhagen The University of Copenhagen (, KU) is a public university, public research university in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is t ...

and at the

University of Copenhagen The University of Copenhagen (, KU) is a public university, public research university in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in Scandinavia, after Uppsala University. ...

; he left the Søren Kierkegaard Research Center after a heated debate with colleague

Joakim Garff Joakim Garff (born 1960) is a Danish theologian and Søren Kierkegaard scholar at Søren Kierkegaard Research Center at the University of Copenhagen The University of Copenhagen (, KU) is a public university, public research university in Cop ...

, whose Kierkegaard biography he lambasted in his own book ''Kierkegaards København''. His 2009 book ''Nurse in the Third Reich'', an account of a Danish woman serving as a nurse in the German Red Cross, achieved some note.

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* — a short biography. 21st-century Danish philosophers Academic staff of the University of Copenhagen Writers from Aarhus 1966 births Living people Academics from Aarhus Kierkegaard scholars {{Denmark-philosopher-stub