Three years after the death of Poul Martin Møller, the young philosopher Søren Kierkegaard dedicated his work Om Begrebet Ironi med stadigt Hensyn til Socrates (1841; translated as The Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates, 1989) to his late professor at the University of Copenhagen with the words "Græcitetens lykkelige Elsker, Homers Beundrer, Sokrates's Medvider, Aristotles's Fortolker . . . min Beundring, mit Savn" (The fortunate lover of Greek Culture, the admirer of Homer, the confidant of Socrates, the interpreter of Aristotle . . . my admiration, my loss). During his lifetime Møller published only a translation of the first songs of The Odyssey, a few poems in various journals, and some reviews and minor philosophical writings. Although most of his work was published posthumously and only exists in the form of fragments and unfinished drafts, Møller was a central figure in the intellectual...