ABSTRACT
Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullian(us) (ca. 160-ca. 230) cannot be considered as one of Kierkegaard’s main sources of inspiration. Allusions to him and quotations of his works in Kierkegaard’s published texts are, compared to other sources, quite rare and probably not based on a very intensive study of his thought. Nevertheless there are several references to Tertullian in his unpublished journals and notebooks. It is also interesting that Kierkegaard had two editions of Tertullian’s works in his library, one in Latin and another in German.1 As his journals show, he also heard about Tertullian in lectures he attended, especially those given by Henrik Nicolai Clausen (1793-1877), Hans Lassen Martensen (1808-84) and Philipp Konrad Marheineke (1780-1846).2 He also deals with Tertullian in some reading notes about secondary literature on this author.3
