ABSTRACT
When dedicating a book to Kierkegaard, the influential and devout Lutheran pastor Lajos Zsigmond Szeberényi, head of the local community in the southeastern corner of Hungary, emphasized immediately in the title that both the life and works of the Dane would be the focus. Lajos Zsigmond Szeberényi's studies in Berlin and his familiarity with Denmark provided him with the opportunity to rely on very important Danish monographs and publications on Kierkegaard as well as German ones. In Szeberényi's opinion, the key to understanding the authorship is Kierkegaard's personality. In the book it is hard to distinguish between illustration and argumentation. The description and analysis of the pseudonymous works mainly serve the author's goal of explaining Kierkegaard's anger against the Danish State Church as the outcome of psychological dilemmas and personal hardships. The book did not have the same influence as those of other writers closer to the mainstream of Hungarian intellectual life.
