 The earliest mentions of Kierkegaard's work in German publications were written by Andreas Frederik Beck, himself Danish and one of the attendees at Kierkegaard's oral dissertation defence.There was an anonymous German review of "Philosophical Fragments" published in 1845 which subsequent scholarship believes was written by Beck.Kierkegaard responded to Beck's criticisms in a footnote published in the followup to the "Fragments", the "Concluding Unscientific Postscript".