Author:David Ferdinand Swenson

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David Ferdinand Swenson
(1876–1940)

Swenson was an authority on the life and writings of the Danish philosopher, Soren Kierkegaard, and spent much of his professional life translating Kierkegaard's works into English.[1]

Works[edit]

Translations of Soren Kierkegaard[edit]

Posthumously published by co-contributor and wife Lillian Marvin Swenson
  • Edifying Discourses (1943-1947)
  • Either/Or: Volume 1 (1945)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2041 due to Renewal R517166
  • Works of Love (1946)
  • Gospel of Suffering (1947)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2043 due to Renewal R602804
  • Lilies of the Field (1948).

Works about David Swenson[edit]

By wife Lillian Marvin Swenson
  • Something About Kierkegaard (1941)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2037 due to Renewal R447260. A collection of Swenson's philosophical talks
  • Thoughts on crucial situations in human life; three discourses on imagined occasions (Renewal: R447259)
  • Kierkegaardian Philosophy and the Faith of a Scholar (1949), a collection of Swenson's addresses and essays

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.


This author died in 1940, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 83 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were legally published within the United States (or the United Nations Headquarters in New York subject to Section 7 of the United States Headquarters Agreement) before 1964, and copyright was not renewed.


This author died in 1940, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 83 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

It is imperative that contributors search the renewal databases and ascertain that there is no evidence of a copyright renewal before using this license. Failure to do so will result in the deletion of the work as a copyright violation.

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