Cathinka Augusta Guldberg (3 January 1840 – 22 October 1919) was a Norwegian nurse, educator and deaconess. She was associated with the development of nursing education in Norway.

Biography

Guldberg was born in the city of Christiania (now Oslo),

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

. She was the eldest daughter of Cato August Guldberg (1812–1892), who was a parish priest. Her mother, Hanna Sophie Theresia Bull (1810–1854), was a cousin of

Marcus Thrane Marcus Møller Thrane (14 October 1817 – 30 April 1890) was a Norwegian author, journalist, and the leader of the first labour movement in Norway. It was later known as the Thrane movement (''Thranebevegelsen''). Early life Thrane was bo ...

(1817–1890), leader of the first Norwegian labour union. Her elder brothers included

Cato Maximilian Guldberg Cato Maximilian Guldberg (11 August 1836 – 14 January 1902) was a Norwegian mathematician and chemist. Guldberg is best known as a pioneer in physical chemistry. Background Guldberg was born in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway. He was the el ...

(1836–1902). When her mother died in 1854, Guldberg took on responsibility for her younger brothers and sister. She became interested in helping people, especially the sick and poor ones in her surroundings. In 1866 Guldberg went to

Kaiserswerth Kaiserswerth is one of the oldest quarters of the City of Düsseldorf, part of Borough 5. It is in the north of the city and next to the river Rhine. It houses the where Florence Nightingale worked. Kaiserswerth has an area of , and 7,923 inh ...

, (Germany) to educate herself as a nurse and deaconess. She visited the Lutheran religious community at Kaiserswerth-am-Rhein, where she observed Pastor

Theodor Fliedner Theodor Fliedner (21 January 18004 October 1864) was a German Lutheran minister and founder of Lutheran deaconess training. In 1836, he founded Kaiserswerther Diakonie, a hospital and deaconess training center. Together with his wives Friederi ...

and the deaconesses working with the sick and the deprived. Kaiserswerther Diakonie had been founded by Theodor Fliedner and his wife Friederike in 1836.

Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale (; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, i ...

had been a former student at this school. Two years later she returned to Norway and at the age of 28 she established the Christiania Deaconess House (''Diakonissehuset Christiania'') and started Norway's first professional nursing program. The school was first situated at Grønland and from 1887 on its own grounds at Lovisenberg in Oslo, where the facility now known as Lovisenberg Deaconess college (''Lovisenberg diakonale høgskole'') still resides. Between 1886 and 1904, Henrik Thrap-Meyer was engaged as the architect in the development of the deaconess college in the district of St. Hanshaugen in Oslo. Cathinka Guldberg was honoured with the

Order of St. Olav The Royal Norwegian Order of Saint Olav ( no, Den Kongelige Norske Sankt Olavs Orden; or ''Sanct Olafs Orden'', the old Norwegian name) is a Norwegian order of chivalry instituted by King Oscar I on 21 August 1847. It is named after King Olav II ...

in 1915 at the age of 75. She died in 1919 and was buried at

Nordre gravlund Nordre Gravlund is a cemetery located between Ullevål University Hospital and the district of Sagene in Oslo, Norway. History The cemetery was first established on the site in 1884. The cemetery has been expanding several times and now has an ...

in Oslo.

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External links

Lovisenberg Deaconess Hospital website
1840 births 1919 deaths People from Oslo in health professions Lutheran deaconesses School founders Norwegian nurses Norwegian educationalists Recipients of the St. Olav's Medal Burials at Nordre gravlund 19th-century philanthropists {{nurse-bio-stub

Biography

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