Which school did Niels Bohr attend starting at age seven?

Niels Bohr attended Gammelholm Latin School, beginning there at age seven.

The school was in Copenhagen, where Bohr was born on 7 October 1885. He remained at Gammelholm through his secondary education and completed his student examination there in 1903. The institution is also described in Danish sources as Gammelholm Latin and Realskole.

Bohr’s abilities in mathematics and physics became especially noticeable in the school’s upper classes. Physics teaching was relatively light by modern standards, but he read beyond his textbooks and reportedly marked passages he considered outdated or incorrect. His younger brother, Harald Bohr, later followed him into an outstanding academic career.

The school should not be confused with Copenhagen’s Metropolitan School or cathedral schools elsewhere in Denmark. After graduating from Gammelholm in 1903, Bohr entered the University of Copenhagen, where physics became his main field and where he eventually developed the ideas associated with his model of the atom.