Natalie Zahle

Ida Charlotte Natalie Zahle (11 June 1827 – 11 August 1913) was a Danish reform pedagogue and pioneer of women's education.

[1] Her parents were the Roskilde vicar Ernst Sophus Wilhelm Zahle (1797-1837) and Vilhelmine Catharina Louise Böttger (1802–37).

[2][3] In 1849, she became a student at the newly founded women's teacher seminary Den højere Dannelsesanstalt for Damer.

Operated by Annestine Beyer (1795–1884), it was the first school in Denmark to offer women a professional academic education.

The Natalie Zahle Memorial is located in Ørsted Park in Copenhagen, close to the school that she founded in 1862.