Career
As a theologian of the official church, he had on several occasions criticized his brother"s works, notably at the Roskilde Ecclesiastical Conventions in 1849 and 1855. Peter Kierkegaard married Elise Marie Boisen in 1836, who died childless in the following year. They had one child, Pascal Poul Egede Kierkegaard.
From 4 September 1867, to 6 March 1868, he was Kultus Minister in the Cabinet of Frijs.