[1] Several well known people were students at Døtreskolen, including the educational pioneer Annestine Beyer.
Todes Døtreskole, founded in 1787, but the parents had been so discontented with it that they had closed it down in 1791 by removing their daughters from it.
The parents of the former students of the closed school, belonging principally to the Copenhagen merchant class, formed a society which started the Døtreskolen af 1791.
The students were given education in scientific subjects after the pattern of boys' schools, which made it a pioneer institution.
[1] In 1846 another pioneer institution for women's education in Denmark, the Den højere Dannelsesanstalt for Damer, was founded in the same building and shared localities with the school for the first period of its existence.