Peder Ludvig Møller

Peder Ludvig Møller (18 April 1814 in Aalborg, Denmark – 8 December in Sotteville-Lès-Rouen, France,<> 1865) was a Danish literary critic. On 22 December 1845, Møller published an article critiquing Stages on Life's Way, a philosophical work by Søren Kierkegaard.

Møller was particularly active in the 1840s as an opponent of Johan Ludvig Heiberg and his followers. Møller was a proponent of Danish Romanticism in criticism . He exercised a significant personal influence on Meïr Aron Goldschmidt, to whose satirical magazine Corsaren he occasionally contributed. An unfortunate mention of Søren Kierkegaard in Møller's aesthetic yearbook Gæa in 1845 provoked the philosopher's ill-considered protest, which greatly contributed to making Møller unpopular in Denmark. In 1846 he went into voluntary exile and from 1851 lived in Paris. He died in great poverty in a hospital in Rouen. Møller's most important works are collected in Kritiske Skizzer (2 volumes, 1847).