Sophie Dändliker-von Wurstemberger

Sophie Dändliker-of Wurstemberger (* 30th September 1809 in Bern ; † 17th April 1878 ibid ; heimatberechtigt in Hombrechtikon and Berne) was a Swiss founder of the Deaconess House Bern in the canton of Bern .

Life

Sophie Dändliker-von Wurstemberger was a daughter of Johann Ludwig Wurstemberger . In 1855 she married Johann Friedrich Dändliker . She grew up in a patrician family home on. As a teenager she was drawn to pietism . In 1836 she founded a support association for needy sick people. After visiting the deaconess house in Kaiserswerth ( Düsseldorf ), Dändliker built a hospital room in a rented apartment in Bern in 1844 . From 1845 she trained deaconesses there. From 1860 she ran the deaconess house together with her husband. After her death, he had the Salem Hospital built in Bern .

literature

• Swiss women indeed 1831–1854. Volume 2. Rascher, Zurich 1929, pp. 207–229.
• Barbara Traber: Bernese women: forty important Bernese women from seven centuries. KJ Wyss, Bern 1980, pp. 48-51.
• Silvia Leonhard: Paths to the Self: Rituals of pietistic self-assurance presented on the basis of self-testimonies from Sophie von Wurstembergs (1809–1878). Licentiate thesis University of Basel 1998.
• Silvia Leonhard: Guaritrici nel pietismo ?: dialoghi di conversione e racconti di guarigione nel diario di Sophie von Wurtstember (1809–1878). In: Quaderni storici 38, 2003, pp. 165-194.
• Friedrich Plewka: Foundation Diakonissenhaus Bern and its anniversary: ​​200 years of Sophie von Wurstemberger. In: Alpenhorn Calendar, Berner Mittelland edition, year 85, 2010, pp. 149–155.

Web links

• Regula Ludi: Sophie Dändliker-von Wurstemberger. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 17, 2004 , accessed July 30, 2020 .

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