In March 2001 the Kierkegaard Cabinet opened at the Budapest University Eötvös Loránd, hosted by the Institute of Aesthetics. The resource center functions as an independent foundation, with the mandate to support Kierkegaard scholarship in Hungary and in the Central Eastern European region, to assist in the translation of the Danish philosopher’s works into Hungarian and in scholarly research focusing on him. The “heart” of the Cabinet is a special library and an electronic data-base that provides contacts to other resource and research centers in the world.
The Kierkegaard Cabinet provides information about conferences, scholarships, translation seminars and has established contacts with the most important institutions: with the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre at Copenhagen University and with the Hong Kierkegaard Library in Northfield, Minnesota (USA). Information about recent publications, translations and about more important studies is also available at the Cabinet.
The collection and facilities of the Cabinet is unique in Hungary as well as in the larger region, so it welcomes scholars, students, researchers from Central and Eastern Europe.