Linda Helenius (July 5, 1894 in

Pöytyä Pöytyä (; , also ) is a municipality of Finland located in the Southwest Finland region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . The municipality is unilingually Finnish. ...

– April 18, 1960 in

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) was a Finnish nurse, missionary and writer. Helenius was among the

Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission The Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission (''FELM'', formerly ''The Finnish Missionary Society''; ; ) is a Lutheran missionary society formed on January 19, 1859, in Helsinki, Finland. It is one of seven organisations of the Evangelical Lutheran C ...

missionaries in

Owamboland Ovamboland, also referred to as Owamboland, was a Bantustan and later a non-geographic ethnic-based second-tier authority, the Representative Authority of the Ovambos, in South West Africa (present-day Namibia). The apartheid government stat ...

(modern Namibia and Angola) in 1921–1952. She took a hospital position in the

Oukwanyama Oukwanyama (''Uukwanyama'' in the neighbouring Oshindonga dialect) is a traditional kingdom of the Ovambo people in what is today northern Namibia and southern Angola Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-Centr ...

territory, first at

Engela Engela is an Ovambo settlement in the Ohangwena Region in northern Namibia. Formerly situated in the Oukwanyama area it is since 2004 part of the town Helao Nafidi, although it still maintained its own village council until the 2015 local authori ...

and then

Eenhana Eenhana (, IPA: ) is the capital town of the Ohangwena Region, northern Namibia, on the border with Angola. It also used to be a mission station of the Finnish Missionary Society. It had a population of 16,588 people in 2023. Eenhana is situ ...

. In 1922 she opened a small clinic in Kwanyama; she established another medical base in Eenhana in 1933.University of Turku website, ''The Finnish Medical Mission in Owambo and Kavango, 1900-2010'', article by Kalle Kananoja dated November 19, 2019
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Writings (in Finnish)

* ''Etelän ristin alla: Kuvauksia lääkärilähetystyöstä Ambomaalla''. Kirjoittajat

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, Karin Hirn ja Linda Helenius. Suomen lähetysseura, Helsinki 1923 * ''Orjuuden kahleissa: Ambokristityt portugalilaisten sortamina''. Suomen lähetysseura, Helsinki 1928 * ''Jumalan puutarha: Vaikutelmia työajaltani Ambomaalla''. Suomen lähetysseura, Helsinki 1930 * ''Ambolainen veritodistaja''. Suomen lähetysseura, Helsinki 1938 * ''”Sillä pimeys katoaa...” Ambopastori Paulus Hamutenjan elämästä ja evankeliumin leviämisestä Uukuanjamaassa''. Suomen lähetysseura, Helsinki 1942 * ''Terveisiä Ambomaalta''. Kirjoittajat Anni Melander, Rauha Tamminen, Linda Helenius. WSOY 1942 * ''Venheestä alloille: Jumalan kätten tekoja Afrikan aarniometsissä''. Vivamo-säätiö, Lohja 1957 * ''Vivamo ja sen asukkaiden vaiheita''. Vivamo-säätiö, Lohja 1957.

References

Sources

*Linda Helenius in the writer encyclopaedia of Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura *Kalliokoski, Ritva: Selma Rainio ensimmäisenä naislääkärinä Ambomaalle Afrikkaan. Lääkärilähetyksen 100-vuotisseminaari 20.9.2008.

External links

University of Turku website
''The Finnish Mission’s Relationship to Anglicans and Roman Catholics in South West Africa, 1919-1937'', article by Kati Kemppainen dated November 19, 2019 1894 births 1960 deaths People from Pöytyä People from Turku and Pori Province (Grand Duchy of Finland) Finnish Lutheran missionaries Finnish nurses Lutheran missionaries in Namibia Lutheran writers Finnish expatriates in Namibia Female Christian missionaries 20th-century Lutherans {{Finland-bio-stub

Writings (in Finnish)

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