Marie Simon (nurse)
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Marie Simon ( Upper Sorbian Marja Simonowa ; born August 26, 1824 in Doberschau ; † February 20 or 21, 1877 in Loschwitz ) was a nurse who earned services in building the Red Cross in the Kingdom of Saxony .
Life
Marie Simon, née Jannasch (Janašec) , was the daughter of a Sorbian farmer in Doberschau near Bautzen in Upper Lusatia . She attended elementary school in Gnaschwitz near Bautzen, where she learned German . When she was about 28 she went to Dresden. Here she married the white goods dealer Friedrich Anton Simon in 1853. Together they ran a lingerie shop on the Altmarkt .
In 1863, the Swiss businessman Henry Dunant presented the idea of setting up the Red Cross aid organization in Saxony to the Saxon Crown Prince Albert . The Albert Association of the Red Cross was founded in 1867 . Its chairman was the wife of the future King Albert, who later became Queen Carola . Marie Simon joined this association. The women of the association who cared for the sick and wounded called themselves Albertine women, later also Red Cross sisters.
Marie Simon had acquired her nursing skills in her youth through self-teaching and through internships at the deaconess hospital in Dresden and at the Leipzig University Clinic . The first practical test was the battle of Königgrätz in the German War in 1866.
After the war, the Crown Princess appointed Carola Marie Simon to the board of directors of the Albert Association and made her responsible for the nurses and the management of the poor. It was also used in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71.
After the end of the war, she devoted herself in particular to training nursing staff. In addition to church-related care, it promoted so-called voluntary and professional nursing. With the support of the Albert Association, she set up a systematic training program in Dresden. For this she used the sanatorium in Loschwitz, which she co-founded, and the polyclinic established for this purpose in Dresden-Neustadt. The trainees spent the last six months of the three-year training in the university clinic in Leipzig . It is thanks to Marie Simon that nursing has been recognized as a profession.
Marie Simon died in Loschwitz at the age of 52. Her grave in the Trinity cemetery no longer exists.
Honors
- King Johann awarded Marie Simon the Order of Sidonia .
- She received the Order of Merit for Nursing and Wounded Care from Kaiser Wilhelm .
- A street in Dresden-Loschwitz was named after her.
- In 2003, an association for the promotion of medical and nursing education was founded in Dresden, which was named Marie-Simon-Forum .
- Marie Simon Nursing Award from 2014
Fonts
- My experiences in the field of voluntary nursing in the Franco-German War 1870-71. Letters and diary sheets, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1872
- Nursing, theoretical and practical instructions. JJ Weber, Leipzig 1876
literature
- Karin Wittneben: Simon, Marie Salome, née Jannasch. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 440 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
Web links
- Ruth Venske: Simon, Marie . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
- Marie Simon Forum
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Simon, Marie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jannasch, Marie (maiden name); Simon, mother |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | nurse |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 26, 1824 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Doberschau |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 21, 1877 |
| Place of death | Loschwitz |