Herlufsholm

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Herlufsholm
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founding 1565
place Næstved
region Zealand
Country Denmark
Coordinates 55 ° 14 '42 "  N , 11 ° 44' 52"  E Coordinates: 55 ° 14 '42 "  N , 11 ° 44' 52"  E
Website www.herlufsholm.dk
Herlufsholm around 1895

Herlufsholm (Danish: Herlufsholm Skole og Gods ) near Næstved is a boarding school founded in 1565 as a private Latin school and today one of the oldest existing schools in Denmark .

history

The secularized Skovkloster , a Benedictine monastery formerly founded by Peder Bodilsen in 1135 on the banks of the Suså , was acquired by the Danish state in 1560 after the Reformation by the humanistic Danish admiral Herluf Trolle and his wife Birgitte Gøye and after Trolle's death as a result of the Three Crowns War in 1565 as a Latin school set up. Trolle made the acquaintance of Philipp Melanchthon and his ideas about upbringing while studying at the University of Wittenberg and not only implemented them in Herlufsholm together with his wife. The Latin schools in Roskilde and Elsinore were also funded by both of them with substantial financial donations. Trolle renamed Skovkloster in Herlufsholm while he was still alive. His very wealthy wife continued the promotion until her death in 1574. Since then, Herlufsholm has existed as a foundation , the first director of which was the Danish historian and Chancellor Arild Huitfeldt , and today has around 450 students, about half of whom are boarding school students. The important library founded by Trolle in Herlufsholm with over 40,000 volumes was sold to the then new University of Odense in 1968 . It was greatly expanded , especially in the 18th century, under the bibliophile count and school master Otto Thott , who was the lord of the castle at the neighboring Gavnø Castle .

  • Herluf Trolle (1551), Frederiksborg Castle Painting Collection

  • Birgitte Gøye (1550), Frederiksborg Castle Painting Collection

building

The former monastery church of Herlufsholm is a single-nave Gothic church and parts of the structure go back to the time the monastery was founded. The nave is considered to be the widest of a single-nave church in Denmark. The church contains the tomb of the founders Trolle and Gøye, which was made by the Flemish sculptor Cornelis Floris II at great expense in 1568, showing both of them lying side by side in full picture. The structure of today's school was the result of a major renovation in the second half of the 19th century.

Well-known teachers and students

The historian and politician Arild Huitfeldt became head of the Herlufsholm Foundation in 1583. 1646–54 the poet Zacharias Lund was principal of the school. The students included the linguist Jákup Jakobsen , the artist Jens Fink-Jensen , the Nobel Prize winner Niels Ryberg Finsen , the writer Knud Lyne Rahbek , the actor Pilou Asbæk and the statesman Corfitz Ulfeldt .

literature

  • Keld Grinder-Hansen: Den danske adels frie skole in: Danmark og renæssancen 1500-1650 Gylling 2006, pp. 154–163, ISBN 87-12-04227-7

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