page_title: Tersløsegaard
section_title: Lydvig Holberg and Sorø Academy
hierarchical_section_title: Tersløsegaard / History / Lydvig Holberg and Sorø Academy
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754)
context_page_description: Tersløsegaard is a manor house located close to Dianalund, Sorø Municipality some 60 kilometres southwest of Copenhagen, Denmark. It was owned by Ludvig Holberg from 1745 to 1756. He left it to Sorø Academy and it has now been converted into a self-owning foundation and contains a Holberg exhibition. The main building is listed. The main building was listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places by the Danish Heritage Agency on in 1918.
context_section_description: Ludvig Holberg purchased Tersløsegaard with churches and tenant farms in 1745. He had already previously acquired Brobygaard at Slagelse. He was involved in the efforts to reopen Sorø Academy. Being both unmarried childless, he agreed to leave his estates, library and most of his fortune to the academy. The agreement with the king included that Holberg earned the title of Baron of Holberg. This meant that he would be free of taxes from any income from his estatestime. The new Sorø Academy was inaugurated on 26 July 1949.
  He spent his summers on the estate and commented: "I enjoy watching the crops grow and being harvested and to watch the cows walk in procession to their gathering places in the morning and evening". He lost almost all his cattle in a single week when cattle disease hit Denmark in the middle of the century. Many landowners immediately purchased new cattle and lost then again in the next outbreak but Holberg replaced them with sheep and horses.
  Holberg died in 1756. Holberg's casket, a work of Johannes Wiedewelt, can be seen in Sorø Monastery Church. His will determined that a few of the rooms should be made available to a "good widow". In 1816, Sorø Academy sold most of the land off in lots. Most of the parcels were acquired by the owner of nearby Kammersgave.
caption: Ludvig Holberg, c. 1748
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