{"id":4726,"date":"2015-02-12T13:33:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T12:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/?page_id=4726"},"modified":"2020-02-21T22:43:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T21:43:05","slug":"relation-to-soren-kierkegaard","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/relation-to-soren-kierkegaard\/","title":{"rendered":"Relation to S\u00f8ren Kierkegaard?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>No.<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Also, his name is <em>Ki<strong>e<\/strong>rkegaard<\/em>, whereas mine is <em>Kirkegaard<\/em>, no silent &lt;e&gt;. The word means <em>graveyard<\/em> (also see below) in Danish. Per 2015, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dst.dk\/en\/Statistik\/emner\/navne\/HvorMange.aspx\">2,656 persons in Denmark<\/a> have my last name (about .05%). Only 281 have <em>ki<strong>e<\/strong>rkegaard<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>S\u00f8ren Kierkegaard had no children, so it is impossible to descent from him. (One could descent from a relative of his though.)<\/p>\n<p>Funnily enough, my great great something grand father&#8217;s name was S\u00f8ren Kirkegaard. However, this family name derives from the fact that the family had a large farm next to the church<em>, <\/em>which gives rise to the double meaning of the name: <em>graveyard<\/em> vs. <em>church farm<\/em>. The modern spelling is <em>kirkeg\u00e5rd<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Danish_orthography#History\">since 1948<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Etymology: DA <em>kirke<\/em> is a cognate with the EN word <em>church<\/em>, cf. Scottish <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kirk\">kirk<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, I hate his philosophy (neurotic Christianity).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No. Also, his name is Kierkegaard, whereas mine is Kirkegaard, no silent &lt;e&gt;. The word means graveyard (also see below) in Danish. Per 2015, 2,656 persons in Denmark have my last name (about .05%). Only 281 have kierkegaard. S\u00f8ren Kierkegaard had no children, so it is impossible to descent from him. (One could descent from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4726","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4726"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6470,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4726\/revisions\/6470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}