Rasmus Møller Sørensen

Danish politician

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Rasmus Møller Sørensen (born March 8, 1799, Jelling, Den.—died May 23, 1865, Copenhagen) was a teacher and politician who was a leading agitator for agrarian reform and for the establishment of representative government in Denmark. In the 1820s and 1830s Sørensen, serving as tutor on the estates of several progressive landowners, developed his ideas of peasant reform. He championed the opening of folk high schools for practical secular education, the breaking up of large estates...