Poul Erik Tjner (born 25 February 1959) only finished his high school education, but was a literary and art critic first at national Danish newspaper Kristligt Dagblad.
Tjner studied philosophy (1981) and Nordic philology (1987) at the University of Copenhagen, getting his master's degree in 1987 and a licentiate degree in 1991 with a dissertation on Sren Kierkegaard. 
