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Peder Ludvig Møller

Danish literary critic (1814–1865)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ7159101 ↗
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Peder Ludvig Møller (18 April 1814 in Aalborg, Denmark – 8 December in Sotteville-Lès-Rouen, France,<> 1865) was a Danish literary critic. On 22 December 1845, Møller published an article critiquing Stages on Life's Way, a philosophical work by Søren Kierkegaard.

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“Peder Ludvig Møller” enters the record as danish literary critic (1814–1865). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Peder, Ludvig and Møller can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7159101. VIAF identifies the subject as 49381946. The Library of Congress control number is n85260190. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1814, 1865 and 1845.

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This entry incorporates text from “Peder Ludvig Møller” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.