The Pseudonymous Chronology

Kiara Fitzpatrick '25 | Kierkegaard Library CURI 2023

The following is a chronological guide to Kierkegaard's pseudonyms. Both pseudonymous editors and authors are included. Authors are listed in the order that their writing appears within the text. Only pseudonymous texts are included.

1843

February 20, 1843 - Either/Or, edited by Victor Eremita

  • Victor Eremita
  • A
  • Johannes the Seducer
  • Judge Wilhelm (B)
  • The Jutland priest

October 16, 1843 - Repetition

  • Constantin Constantius
  • The Young Man

October 16, 1843 - Fear and Trembling

  • Johannes de silentio

1844

June 13, 1844 - Philosophical Fragments

  • Johannes Climacus

June 17, 1844 - The Concept of Anxiety

  • Vigilius Haufniensis

June 17, 1844 - Prefaces

  • Nicolaus Notabene

1845

April 30, 1845 - Stages on Life's Way, published by Hilarius Bookbinder

  • Hilarius Bookbinder
  • William Afham
  • Victor Eremita
  • The Young Man
  • The Fashion Designer
  • Constantin Constantius
  • Johannes the Seducer
  • A Married Man (Judge Wilhelm)
  • Quidam
  • Frater Taciturnus

1846

January 10, 1846 - Response to Corsair's attack, published in The Fatherland

  • Frater Taciturnus

February 27, 1846 - Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments, edited by S. Kierkegaard

  • Johannes Climacus

1848

July 24-27, 1847 - The Crisis and a Crisis in the Life of an Actress, serialized in The Fatherland

  • Inter et Inter

1849

May 14, 1849 - Either/Or, second edition, edited by Victor Eremita

July 30, 1849 - The Sickness unto Death, edited by S. Kierkegaard

  • Anti-Climacus

1850

September 27, 1850 - Practice in Christianity, edited by S. Kierkegaard

  • Anti-Climacus