Corsaren (English: The Corsair) was a Danish-language weekly satirical and political magazine published by Meïr Aron Goldschmidt,[1] who also wrote most of its content.

The first six months there were no fewer than six editors due to censorship issues.

In 1842 Goldschmidt was sentenced to 24 days in prison, a fine of 200 rigsdaler and future censorship.

This was a fight that Kierkegaard, to a certain degree, started himself when he under the pseudonym Frater Taciturnus in a five-page article called "The Work of a Traveling Aesthete" ("En omreisende Æsthetikers Virksomhed") in The Fatherland (Fædrelandet) on 27 December 1845 wrote: "Hopefully I will soon appear in The Corsair.

It is really hard for a poor writer to be thus singled out in Danish literature that he (assuming we pseudonyms are one) is the only one that is not scolded there."