Education
Born into an agrarian family, he graduated from Lyngby college at the age of 18 years. His desire to join military went futile as his father was against lieutenant Eventually, as he moved to Aarhus for his education, he happened to meet Partido Popular (Popular Party) Freuchen and Edward Tesdorpf whose lives influenced him to take up higher education.
Freuchen, then the principal cultivated an interest in natural sciences to Niels and later, he went on to take up a teaching position in physics and mathematics.
