Niels Jørgen Cappelørn

Niels Jørgen Cappelørn (born 1945) is a Danish theologian, Søren Kierkegaard scholar and director of Søren Kierkegaard Research Center at the University of Copenhagen. He has written and edited a number of books on Kierkegaard, and was editor of Index til Søren Kierkegaards Papirer, bind XIV-XVI (1975-78). He was Director of the Danish Bible Society from 1980 to 1993.

Professor Cappelørn is a member of the Danish Council of Ethics, a body which provides advice to the Danish Parliament and raises public debate about ethical problems in the field of biomedicine,^[1] and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.^[2] He was made a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog in 1992.^[3] A festschrift in his honor, At Være Sig Selv Nærværende (To Be Present to Oneself) was published in 2010, on the occasion of Professor Cappelørn's 65th birthday.^[4]

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1. ^ "Det Etiske Råd" (in Danish). http://www.etiskraad.dk/sw14711.asp. Retrieved 14 August 2010. 
2. ^ "Gruppe 8: Religionsvitenskap og teologi" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. http://www.dnva.no/c26849/artikkel/vis.html?tid=40114. Retrieved 9 January 2011. 
3. ^ "borger.dk" (in Danish). https://www.borger.dk/foa/Sider/Default.aspx?fk=26&foaid=10244574&paid=12650619. Retrieved 14 August 2010. 
4. ^ "Kristeligt Dagblads Forlag" (in Danish). http://forlag.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/artikel/356751:Forlag--At-vaere-sig-selv-naervaerende. Retrieved 14 August 2010. 

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Name	Cappleoern, Niels Jorgen
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Date of birth	1945
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