Friederike Wilhelmine Gottliebin Canz (1815 - 1901)

Born 27 Feb 1815 in Hornberg, Calw, Württemberg, Deutschland

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Died 15 Jan 1901 at age 85 in Großheppach, Waiblingen, Württemberg, Deutschland

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Biography

Has German Roots in Württemberg

Wilhelmine Canz is Notable.

Wilhelmine was strongly influenced by her brother Karl, through whom she came into contact with the Hegelian philosophy, but also received an evangelical stamp. For a while she and her mother kept house for him in his parish; first in Buchenberg in the Black Forest, then in Bischoffingen am Kaiserstuhl. Wilhelmine Canz gained her first experience working with children in the Bischoffingen community. She also got to know the institution for nurses in Nonnenweier and its director Regine Julie Jolberg, who suggested that she set up a similar institution in Württemberg, for which she found no support in Stuttgart. The sudden death of her brother in 1854 forced Wilhelmine Canz as an unmarried woman to find a new job and place to stay. In 1855 she came to Großheppach in response to an inquiry and set up the first child care facility with the support of the parish. In 1856 the first trainee nurses came to the newly founded educational institution for toddler carers. So Wilhelmine became the founder of the Großheppach Sisterhood.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Wilhelmine Canz
• Wikidata: Item Q18917000, de:Wikipedia