19.11.1770

Thorvaldsen is born in Copenhagen.

Sources

H.F.J. Estrups biografi over Thorvaldsen 1818/26 (her dokumenteres kun året).
Peder Horrebow Haste: ‘Bidrag til Thorwaldsens Levnet og Characteristik’, in: Archiv for Historie og Geographi XVI, 1824, p. 369.
Brev af 8.6.1830 fra P.H. Haste til J.M. Thiele.
Thiele I, p. 6.

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