Søren Kierkegaard Gravesite

The Søren Kierkegaard gravesite sits in the Assistens Cemetery, marked by a simple, upright headstone surrounded by a low iron fence. It holds the remains of the philosopher who spent his life arguing against the rigid conformity of the Danish state church. After a public quarrel with the Bishop of Copenhagen in eighteen fifty-five, Kierkegaard refused to be buried by the church, though his family eventually laid him here. This grave became a site of quiet friction between institutional authority and his followers.