David Ferdinand Swenson (October 29, 1876 – February 11, 1940) was a Swedish-born American translator and an authority on the life and writings of the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard.
Swenson enjoyed it so much that he devoted the rest of his life to making Kierkegaard's writings available to the English reading public.
Swenson taught a course on Great Thinkers of the Nineteenth Century in 1914 and introduced Soren Kierkegaard to his audience.
[7] Swenson's goal was to make the writings of Soren Kierkegaard known to the English reading public.
He and his wife, Lillian Marvin Swenson, translated many of Kierkegaard's works into English before David died in 1940.