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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Copenhagen in 1813, Søren Kierkegaard trained as a Lutheran theologian but turned his tools against the institution itself, attacking the Church of Denmark as a state-controlled apparatus that had strangled authentic faith. He wrote much of his early philosophical work pseudonymously, crafting multiple personae who debated across his books, while publishing devotional "Upbuilding Discourses" under his own name for what he called the "single individual." His core claim was radical for its time: becoming a Christian required subjective commitment, not objective proof, and the distance between man and God was infinite — bridgeable only by a passionate, personal leap. He explored angst, choice, and the stages of life's way, always prioritizing lived human reality over abstraction. Written in Danish, his work stayed regional until translations spread across Europe at the turn of the 20th century. By mid-century his ideas had reshaped existentialism, theology, and the way the West thought about selfhood. He died in Copenhagen in 1855, forty-two years old.