Kristen Mikkelsen Kold

Kristen Mikkelsen Kold (born March 29, 1816, Jutland, Den.—died April 6, 1870, Dalem) was an educator who did more than anyone else of his time to promote the folk high-school movement in Denmark. Kold was a shoemaker’s son and was educated as a teacher, but he found himself unable to adapt to the highly formal educational system. Instead, he founded a residential school in 1851 at Ryslinge, where, living frugally with his students, he carried...