Maria Cederschiöld (deaconess), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Swedish nurse
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Place of Birth: Växjö, Kronoberg County, Sweden
About Maria Cederschiöld (deaconess)
- Not to be confused with the journalist and suffragette Maria Cederschiöld Anna Maria Cederschiöld (20 November 1815 in Växjö - 7 January 1892 in Lund) was a Swedish noble deaconess and nurse.
- She was a pioneer in the education of deaconesses and nursing in Sweden, and the first head of the first Deaconess institution in Sweden, Ersta diakoni, in 1851-1862.
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