Ernst Sørensen (19 August 1903 – 24 January 1972) was a Norwegian schoolteacher, essayist, journalist, magazine editor and language activist.

Personal life

Born in

Tønsberg Tønsberg (), historically Tunsberg, is a List of towns and cities in Norway, city in Tønsberg Municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. It is located about south-southwest of the capital city of Oslo on the western coast of the Oslofjord near ...

on 19 August 1903, Sørensen was son of banker Sigval Sørensen and Oline Marie Olsen. He was the first husband of politician

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(née Solberg), whom he married in 1932.

Career

Sørensen lectured at the

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Waldorf School Waldorf education, also known as Steiner education, is based on the educational philosophy of Rudolf Steiner, the founder of anthroposophy. Its educational style is holistic, intended to develop pupils' intellectual, artistic, and practical ski ...

from 1935 to 1949. He edited the magazine '' Spektrum'' from 1949 to 1954, and the magazine ''Horisont'' from 1958 to 1965. He chaired the

Riksmål Society Riksmålsforbundet (; official translation: "The Riksmaal Society - The Society for the Preservation of Traditional Standard Norwegian") is the main organisation for Riksmål, an unofficial variety of the Norwegian language, based on the official ...

from 1959 to 1961. Among his books are ''Demringen'' from 1946, and the essay collection ''Tegn i sol og måne'' from 1963.

References

1903 births 1972 deaths Norwegian non-fiction writers Norwegian essayists Norwegian magazine editors Norwegian schoolteachers Riksmål-language writers 20th-century Norwegian essayists {{Norway-writer-stub