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Amanda Cajander
Finnish nurse and deaconess
Mathilda Fredrika "Amanda" Cajander, née Nygren (10 January 1827 – 23 February 1871),[1] was a Finnish deaconess and a pioneer within medical care in Finland.
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Born | Mathilda Fredrika Nygren (1827-01-10)10 January 1827 |
Died | 23 February 1871(1871-02-23) (aged 44) |
Nationality | Finnish |
Occupation(s) | Nurse, deaconess |
Spouse | Anders Cajander |
Cajander married the doctor Anders Cajander in 1848 and had two children. In 1856, by the age of 29, however, she was widowed and her children had died.[2] After this loss, Cajander moved to train as a deaconess at the Evangelical Deaconess Institute in Saint Petersburg.[3] The wealthy Finnish philanthropist Aurora Karamsin was familiar with the institute and when she decided to open a deaconess institution in Helsinki she invited Cajander to be its first principal.[4] The institute opened in December 1867,[5] during the great Famine of 1866–68. To begin with, the institute was modest – a small hospital with eight beds, an orphanage and an asylum – and aimed to primarily help women and children and to care for the sick.[4]
In 1869 Cajander founded a children's home in Helsinki.[6]
She is buried in the Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki.[7]
Cajander and Karamsin are considered the first Christian philanthropists in Finland, and are credited with introducing the new idea of women having a vocation to work for the church.[4] The first deaconess educated in Finland became Cecilia Blomqvist. The secular nursing profession for women in Finland did not start until the nursing courses of Anna Broms in the 1880s.
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- Janfelt, M. (1999). Den privat-offentliga gränsen: Det sociala arbetets strategier och aktörer i Norden 1860–1940. Nord (in Swedish). Nordisk Ministerråd. p. 177. ISBN 978-92-893-0300-2. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
- Markkola, Pirjo (2011). "Women's Spirituality, Lived Religion, and Social Reform in Finland, 1860–1920" (PDF). Perichoresis – the Theological Journal of Emanuel University. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
- Marjomaa, Ulpu (2000). 100 Faces from Finland: A Biographical Kaleidoscope. FLS. p. 198. ISBN 951-746-215-8.
- "p.236-7. History of the Deaconess Movement in the Christian Church". forgottenbooks.com. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
- "Hietaniemen hautausmaa – merkittäviä vainajia" (PDF). Helsingin seurakuntayhtymä. Retrieved 26 August 2016.