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Swenson is best known as the first of the translators of the works of Danish writer Soren Kierkegaard into the English language. He was born in Kristinehamn, Sweden and moved to Minnesota with his parents in , when he was 6 years old.

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He was educated in the public schools of Minneapolis and in entered the University of Minnesota. Upon graduation he was offered a position as assistant professor in the department of philosophy at that same university. By Swenson had progressed to the rank of full professor. His interest in Kierkegaard began in when he was looking through the books in the city library and came across a thick book about the size of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and decided to read it.

Swenson enjoyed it so much that he devoted the rest of his life to making Kierkegaard's writings available to the English reading public. Most Kierkegaard scholars read Swenson's translations before Howard V. Hong translated Kierkegaard again and started the Hong Kierkegaard Library. Swenson taught a course on Great Thinkers of the Nineteenth Century in and introduced Soren Kierkegaard to his audience.

Later he contributed an article about Kierkegaard in to The Philosophical Review [ 1 ] and a monograph about him for Scandinavian Studies and Notes in The reviewer said Swenson "rendered the English-reading public a distinguished service" in translating the work. Perkins noted both the value of Swenson's translations in some of his works.

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