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NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut College has received a $225,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a project to translate the unpublished works of Danish philosopher and theologian Soren Kierkegaard into English.
Professor Emeritus Bruce Kirmmse has led a decade-long effort to produce a definitive English-language edition of Kierkegaard's journals and notebooks. Kirmmse received a knighthood from Denmark in 2013 in recognition of his work.
Eight volumes of the project have already been published. The grant will support work on additional volumes by translators at Boston College, the University of Copenhagen, the University of Oslo and Oxford University over a three-year period.
Kirmmse was the chairman of Connecticut College's history department from 1989 to 1993. He retired from the school in 2007.
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