Sorø
Sorø is a town in Sorø municipality in Region Sjælland on the island of Zealand in east Denmark. The population is 8,005. 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. 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.
Many people live in Sorø, but work either in the greater Copenhagen metropolitan area or in the town of Roskilde.Economy
Companies headquartered in Sorø include Hørkram.Notable people
- Otto Thott a Count and landowner, lived and buried in Sorø
- Jens Schielderup Sneedorff an author, professor of political science with a big role in the Age of Enlightenment
- Jens Paludan-Müller a Danish bishop, teacher and author, Bishop of Aarhus 1830-1845
- Christian Molbech an historian and critic
- Bernhard Severin Ingemann a novelist and poet
- Louise Thomsen a pioneering photographer
- Christian Frederik Lütken zoologist and naturalist
- Julius Petersen mathematician, on graph theory
- Emilie Mundt painter of portraits of children
- Bernhard Bang veterinarian, worked on bovine TB
- Margrete Heiberg Bose an Argentine physicist
- Thorkel Møller an architect, worked in Aarhus
- Astrid Holm a Danish theater and film actress from the early silent film era
- Yvonne Herløv Andersen a Danish politician, elected to the Folketing in 1977, serving variously for Sorø until 2001
- Ina Skriver retired actress and model, worked mostly in British films and TV, now lives in Withypool, Somerset
- Peter Reinhard Hansen Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina
- Martin Høgsted a Danish stand-up comedian
Sport
- Axel Thayssen a Danish tennis player, competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics
- Bent Jensen a Danish rower, competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Trine Hansen a retired female rower, bronze medallist at the 1996 Summer Olympics, grew up in Sorø
