Corsaren
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Corsaren (1840-1846) was a weekly satirical and political magazine published by Meïr Aron Goldschmidt
who also wrote most of its content. The first issue was published on the 8 October 1840 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The first 6 month there were no less than 6 editors due to censorship issues and it was not until the 161st issue three years later that Goldschmidt's name was printed on the back as its publisher. In 1842 Goldschmidt was sentenced to 24 days in prison, a fine of 200 rigsdaler
and future censorship.
to the point that Kierkegaard could divide his life into a before and after Corsaren. A fight that Kierkegaard to a certain degree started himself when he under the pseudonym Frater Taciturnus in a five page article called The Work of a Travelling Aesthete (En omreisende Æsthetikers Virksomhed) in The Fatherland (Fædrelandet) on the 27. December 1845 wrote: Hopefully I will soon appear in 'The Corsair'. It is really hard for a poor writer to be thus singled out in Danish literature that he (assuming we pseudonyms are one) is the only one that is not scolded there. And again on the 10. January 1846: (...) can I ask to scolded (...).
Goldschmidt was forced to sell Corsaren in 1846 for 1,500 rigsdaler.
Meïr Aron Goldschmidt
Meïr Aron Goldschmidt was a Danish publisher, journalist and novelist with a Jewish background. Goldschmidt was born in Vordingborg but raised in Copenhagen...
who also wrote most of its content. The first issue was published on the 8 October 1840 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The first 6 month there were no less than 6 editors due to censorship issues and it was not until the 161st issue three years later that Goldschmidt's name was printed on the back as its publisher. In 1842 Goldschmidt was sentenced to 24 days in prison, a fine of 200 rigsdaler
Danish rigsdaler
The rigsdaler was the name of several currencies used in Denmark until 1873. The similarly named Reichsthaler, riksdaler and rijksdaalder were used in Germany and Austria-Hungary, Sweden and the Netherlands, respectively....
and future censorship.
The Kierkegaard Affair
Corsaren played an important role in the life of Søren KierkegaardSøren Kierkegaard
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a Danish Christian philosopher, theologian and religious author. He was a critic of idealist intellectuals and philosophers of his time, such as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel...
to the point that Kierkegaard could divide his life into a before and after Corsaren. A fight that Kierkegaard to a certain degree started himself when he under the pseudonym Frater Taciturnus in a five page article called The Work of a Travelling Aesthete (En omreisende Æsthetikers Virksomhed) in The Fatherland (Fædrelandet) on the 27. December 1845 wrote: Hopefully I will soon appear in 'The Corsair'. It is really hard for a poor writer to be thus singled out in Danish literature that he (assuming we pseudonyms are one) is the only one that is not scolded there. And again on the 10. January 1846: (...) can I ask to scolded (...).
Goldschmidt was forced to sell Corsaren in 1846 for 1,500 rigsdaler.