Friederike zu Sayn-Wittgenstein
Friederike Maria Monika Jutta Princess zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (born November 21, 1961 in Marburg ) is a German midwife , nursing and health scientist and university professor who bears the name Friederike zu Sayn-Wittgenstein .
Her parents are Botho Prince zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (1927-2008) and Elisabeth Princess zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein, née Freiin von Zedlitz and Leipe (* 1937).
Life
Sayn-Wittgenstein initially worked as a delivery room midwife from 1982 to 1989 and was involved as a health advisor for development aid projects in Brazil . In 1989 she began studying nursing and health sciences in the USA , which she completed in 1992. Until 1994 she was employed as a family health expert at the WHO in Geneva . In 1999 she received her doctorate from Harvard University in Boston with the thesis The social dynamics of low fertility in Germany: An East - West Comparison . She was a participant in the Lower Saxony Dorothea-Erxleben program.
Sayn-Wittgenstein has been a professor for nursing and midwifery studies at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences since September 2000 . Her main focus is on theory and knowledge development in midwifery and midwifery research. She is co-founder and first chairwoman of the German Society for Midwifery Science and was appointed to the Science Council of the German Federal President in 2015 . 2016 Sayn-Wittgenstein was your contribution to midwifery in Germany with the German nursing Price honored the year by the German Nursing Council is awarded.
Book publications
- Rethinking obstetrics. Stuttgart, Verlag Hans Huber, 2007, ISBN 3-456-84425-5 .
- Handbook midwifery delivery room - From the idea to implementation. Edited by Verbund Midwife Research. Osnabrück, Verlag der FH Osnabrück, 2007. 70 pages. ISBN 3-00-017371-4 .
Web links
- Vita at the Midwifery Research Association at the University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück
- Information at the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences
Individual evidence
- ^ Deutscher Pflegerat eV: Press release Professor Dr. Friederike zu Sayn-Wittgenstein receives the 2016 German Nursing Prize. Accessed March 19, 2016.
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| SURNAME | Sayn-Wittgenstein, Friederike zu |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein, Friederike Maria Monika Jutta Princess zu (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German midwife, nursing and health scientist and university lecturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 21, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marburg |