Cathinka Guldberg

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Cathinka Guldberg (1915)

Cathinka Augusta Guldberg (born January 3, 1840 in Christiania , † October 22, 1919 in Kristiania ) was a Norwegian deaconess and founder of nursing education in Norway.

Life

Guldberg grew up in Christiania (now Oslo) and in Nannestad . Her father was pastor Carl August Guldberg. Her mother Hanna Sophie Theresia Bull (1810–1854) was a cousin of Marcus Thrane (1817–1890), a Norwegian socialist and head of the first Norwegian labor movement. As the eldest daughter, she took over the family household at the age of 15 after the death of her mother.

As a young woman, Guldberg learned of the death of a homeless girl who had frozen to death on the street in Christian Norway. Impressed by this, she looked for a helping life task. She moved away from home at the age of 24 and in 1866 traveled to Germany to study at the Diakonie Kaiserswerth , where Florence Nightingale had previously been a student. During her training, she served at field camps in Dresden and Berlin during the Austro-Prussian war and at the field hospital in Alexandria .

At the same time, the first diaconal institutions were founded in Norway, including the deaconess house and the first nursing school, in which the theologian Gisle Johnson was involved. While still in Germany, Cathinka Guldberg was asked to take over the founding and management of deaconess training in Norway, with the structure and organization of nursing based on the Kaiserswerth model of Theodor Fliedner .

The Norwegian nursing training under Guldberg began on November 20, 1868. The deaconess institution was initially on the community farm in Oslo-Grønland , later in Ullevålsveien, and from 1887 on its own premises in the Lovisenberg district , where the institution is still located today.

The Deaconess Institute, later the Deaconess House, was the only nursing school in the country for 22 years. Guldberg ran the facility for 51 years of her life and was still operating there when she died at the age of 79.

Cathinka was the sister of the chemist Cato Guldberg and the medicine professor Gustav Adolph Guldberg . She was related by marriage to the chemist Peter Waage .

Honors

Her work has been instrumental in developing the health professions and church services in Norway. But it also promoted the development of self-determined vocational training for women.

Cathinka Guldberg was named the first female knight of the first class of the Order of St. Olav in 1915 . It was painted by Emmanuel Vigeland in 1918 . A statue by Nic Schiøll was unveiled in 1966. In 1968 Guldberg was depicted on a stamp marking the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the deaconess house.

Cathinka Guldberg is buried in the tomb of the deaconesses on Nordre Gravlund in Oslo.

literature

  • Alf G. Andersen, Hans-Erik Hansen: 500 som preget Norge, norske kvinner and men in the 20th year . Millennium, 1999.
  • Clara Thue Ebbell: Cathinka Guldberg, banebryter, the norske diakonisses mor . Lutherstiftelsen, 1940.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Guro Hellgren: Cathinka Guldberg . In:  Norsk biografisk leksikon , Vol. 3. 2001, p.
  2. ↑ Guro Hellgren: Cathinka Guldberg . Norsk biografisk leksikon. Retrieved July 15, 2016.
  3. ^ Arlene B. Miller: Called to care: a Christian worldview for nursing . 2nd ed., Rev. and expanded. IVP Academic / InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, Ill. 2006, ISBN 978-0-8308-7466-8 , pp. 20 .
  4. ↑ Volker Klimpel : Gisle Christian Johnson . In: Hubert Kolling (Ed.): Biographical lexicon on nursing history “Who was who in nursing history” , Volume 7. hps media, Nidda 2015, pp. 132 + 133.
personal data
SURNAME Guldberg, Cathinka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guldberg, Cathinka Augusta (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian deaconess and founder of nursing education in Norway
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Christiania
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1919
Place of death Kristiania