Rikke Nissen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Rikke Nissen

Norwegian nursing teacher

Date of Birth: 16-Mar-1834

Place of Birth: Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway

Date of Death: 10-Jan-1892

Profession: writer, teacher, nurse, biographer

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Rikke Nissen

  • Ulrikke Eleonore "Rikke" Nissen (16 March 1834 – 10 January 1892) was a Norwegian nursing teacher; the first female nursing teacher in Norway. She was born in Trondhjem as a daughter of merchant Martinus Nissen (1800–1836) and Ida Susanne Amalie Hagerup (1808–85).
  • Her father died when she was only one year old, and she grew up in Romedal after her mother married Severin Henrik Ræder (1800–1878).
  • She was a sister of Bolette Gjør, niece of Hartvig Nissen, grandniece of Henrich Steffens, great-granddaughter of Martinus Lind Nissen and a first cousin of Prime Minister Francis Hagerup.
  • She did not marry, but was an aunt of Claus Riiber.She was homeschooled until 1847, when she enrolled in Lotz Girls School in Christiania.
  • Her sister Bolette also moved to attend school in the capital, and underwent a religious awakening in the milieu of Gisle Johnson.
  • Nissen became familiar with this awakening, and the network of women's missionary associations which her sister worked to establish.
  • At the same time, in 1851 a Deaconess House was established in Stockholm, Sweden to educate nurses in a Christian setting.
  • Through numerous magazine articles Nissen began agitating for such an institution in Christiania.In 1868 the Deaconess House (now: Lovisenberg Diaconal University College) was founded with Cathinka Guldberg as manager.
  • Nissen travelled in Germany to study similar institutions there, and was subsequently hired as a teacher at the Deaconess House in 1870.
  • In 1877 she wrote Norway's first textbook in nursing, Lærebog i Sygepleie, under the pseudonym R.N.
  • The following year she visited a similar institution in Bergen; in 1878 her sister moved to Christiania and was hired at the Deaconess House as well.
  • From 1884 to 1891 Nissen edited the magazine Fra Diakonissehuset.Between 1885 and 1888 she stayed in Germany to overcome rheumatism.
  • She wrote two books in German following this stay; Norwegische Bilder aus der Geschichte der weiblichen Diakonie, nebst anderen Liebeswerken (1886) and Henriette Gislesen und ihre Freunde.
  • Ein Bild aus der norwegischen Kirche (1890).
  • She died in January 1892 in Kristiania and was buried at Vår Frelsers gravlund.

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