Blandina Ridder

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Blandina Ridder (born as Maria Ridder, born May 4, 1871 in Anreppen , † October 22, 1916 in Cologne ) was a German nurse and nun of the Cellitinnen .

Maria Ridder joined the Cologne Cellitinnen in 1889 according to the rule of St. Augustine a. From 1898 she worked in their community hospital in Severinstrasse . She worked alongside Professor Bernhard Bardenheuer as one of the first Cologne X-ray nurses in the surgical ward of the clinic. In the early years of medical X-ray technology, the operating personnel were exposed to harmful radiation without any protection. Ridder developed cancer 18 months after starting this job . She continued to work in the hospital for as long as her health allowed and died at the age of 45.

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In 1953 the nursing school in the Cologne-Merheim hospital was named after her. On to the "martyrs of the x-ray diagnosis" before the Hamburg St. Georg Hospital reminiscent Memorial radiology is her name listed.

In 2018 the Blandina-Ridder-Straße in Cologne-Lindenthal was named after her.

Web links

Entry in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ekkart Sauser :  Ridder, Blandina. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 15, Bautz, Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-077-8 , Sp. 1204.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  2. ^ Website of the University Hospital Cologne ( Memento from August 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed December 6, 2009
  3. ↑ Ulrich S. Soénius, Jürgen Wilhelm (Ed.): Kölner Personenlexikon . Greven Verlag, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-7743-0400-0 .
  4. ↑ W. Molineus, H. Holthusen , H. Meyer (Editor): Honor Book of radiologists of all nations. Berlin 1992 ISBN 3-89412-132-7
  5. ↑ Central name archive. (pdf, 361 kB) In: Official Gazette of the City of Cologne. July 25, 2018, pp. 304/308 , accessed July 28, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Ridder, Blandina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ridder, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nurse and nun of the Cellitinnen
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Stepping up
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1916
Place of death Cologne