Sorø

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Sorø
Town
Sorø Academy
Coat of arms
Motto(s):  "Skolebyen Sorø"
Sorø
Coordinates: 55°26′N 11°34′E / 55.433°N 11.567°E / 55.433; 11.567Coordinates: 55°26′N 11°34′E / 55.433°N 11.567°E / 55.433; 11.567
Country	Denmark
Region	Region Zealand
Municipality	Sorø Municipality
Founded	1100s
Government
• Mayor
Area
• Urban	5.43 km2 (2.10 sq mi)
Population  (2021)
• Urban	8,035
• Urban density	1,500/km2 (3,800/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Soraner
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	4180
Website	soroe.dk

Sorø (Danish pronunciation: [ˈsoːˌʁœˀ]) is a town in Sorø municipality in Region Sjælland on the island of Zealand (Sjælland) in east Denmark. The population is 8,035 (2021).^[1] The municipal council and the regional council are located in Sorø.

Sorø was founded in 1161 by Bishop Absalon, later the founder of Copenhagen, and is the site of Sorø Academy (Danish Sorø Akademis Skole). The Academy is an educational institution built in 1140. Also built that year was Sorø Klosterkirke, the church where Bishop Absalon and Margaret I of Denmark were buried (she was later moved to Roskilde Domkirke, Roskilde).

Many people live in Sorø, but work either in the greater Copenhagen metropolitan area or in the town of Roskilde^{[citation needed]}.

Economy[]

Companies headquartered in Sorø include Hørkram.

Notable people[]

Jens Schielderup Sneedorff, 1764

• Otto Thott (1703–1785) a Count and landowner, lived and buried in Sorø
• Jens Schielderup Sneedorff (1724 in Sorø–1764) an author, professor of political science with a big role in the Age of Enlightenment
• Jens Paludan-Müller (1771 in Sorø–1845) a Danish bishop, teacher and author, Bishop of Aarhus 1830–1845
• Christian Molbech (1783 in Sorø–1857) an historian and critic
• Bernhard Severin Ingemann (1789–1862 in Sorø) a novelist and poet
• Louise Thomsen (1823 in Sorø–1907) a pioneering photographer
• Christian Frederik Lütken (1827 in Sorø–1901) zoologist and naturalist
• Julius Petersen (1839 in Sorø–1910) mathematician, on graph theory
• Emilie Mundt (1842 in Sorø–1922) painter of portraits of children
• Bernhard Bang (1848 in Sorø–1932) veterinarian, worked on bovine TB
• Margrete Heiberg Bose (1865 in Sorø–1952) an Argentine physicist
• Thorkel Møller (1868 in Sorø–1946) an architect, worked in Aarhus
• Astrid Holm (1893 in Sønder Bjerge Sogn – 1961) a Danish theater and film actress from the early silent film era^[2]
• Yvonne Herløv Andersen (born 1942) a Danish politician, elected to the Folketing in 1977, serving variously for Sorø until 2001
• Ina Skriver (born 1945 in Sorø) retired actress and model, worked mostly in British films and TV, now lives in Withypool, Somerset^[3]
• Peter Reinhard Hansen (born 1968 in Sorø) Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina
• Martin Høgsted (born 1982 in Dianalund) a Danish stand-up comedian^[4]

Sport[]

• Axel Thayssen (1885 in Sorø–1952) a Danish tennis player, competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics
• Bent Jensen (born 1925 in Sorø) a Danish rower, competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics
• Trine Hansen (born 1973) a retired female rower, bronze medallist at the 1996 Summer Olympics, grew up in Sorø

See also[]

• Sorø Museum
• Sorø Academy

References[]

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sorø.

• Sorø municipality's official website
• Tourist information

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