Skårup
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| subdivision_name2 = Svendborg
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Skårup is a town located on the island of Funen in south-central Denmark in Svendborg Municipality close to the city of Svendborg.
Seminarium
Skårup was previously the location of Skårup Seminarium which closed in 2010. The buildings are still there, although a new use for them has yet to be determined.
Notable people
- Emil Rostrup (1831–1907) a Danish botanist, mycologist and plant pathologist and, for 25 years from 1858, a teacher at the paedagogical college Skårup Seminarium in then new subject of natural history
- Hans Peter Nielsen (1852 in Vejstrup near Skårup – 1928) a Danish farmer and politician
References
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