The celebrated capitol of Denmark, birthplace and center of the intellectual activity of Søren Kierkegaard, receives Cornelio Fabro for the first time in 1948.

Self-taught, Fabro learned Danish in less than two months, in order to translate, directly from the original texts, the work of a thinker that will be considered one of his masters, together with St. Thomas. During these years, Fabro is also working on the translation of the Diary (in 3 volumes, 1948-1951) of Kierkegaard.

He translated and published a great number of writings by Kierkegaard and about Kierkegaard — it appears to be the most extensive published collection in Italy and abroad.

For which recognition of his contributions toward the understanding of Kierkegaard, he will become a member of “S. Kierkegaards Selskabet” of Copenhagen, since its foundation (1950). For the centennial celebrations of the Danish thinker, he will be invited by the University of Copenhagen to be an official speaker at the Convention on Kierkegaardian Studies (Copenhagen, August 6-12, 1955).

The last writing on Kierkegaard bears the date of 1989.