At the age of twenty (in June 1905), I began working as a probationer nurse at the Halle Deaconess House, as I had now reached the required age.
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Deaconess-house
Synonyms for "deaconess-house"
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Translations
22 translations across 6 languages.
Dutch
2 entries- diaconessenhuis noun (house inhabited by deaconesses)
- diakonessenhuis noun (house inhabited by deaconesses)
French
2 entries- maison des diaconesses noun (house inhabited by deaconesses)
- maison des diaconisses noun (house inhabited by deaconesses)
German
4 entries- Diaconissen-Mutterhaus noun (house inhabited by deaconesses)
- Diaconissenanstalt noun (house inhabited by deaconesses)
- Diaconissenhaus noun (house inhabited by deaconesses)
- Diaconissenmutterhaus noun (house inhabited by deaconesses)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- diakonisseanstalt noun (house inhabited by deaconesses)
- diakonisseheim noun (house inhabited by deaconesses)
- diakonissehjem noun (house inhabited by deaconesses)
- diakonissehus noun (house inhabited by deaconesses)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- diakonisseanstalt noun (house inhabited by deaconesses)
- diakonisseheim noun (house inhabited by deaconesses)
- diakonissehus noun (house inhabited by deaconesses)
Swedish
3 entries- diakonissanstalt noun (house inhabited by deaconesses)
- diakonisshem noun (house inhabited by deaconesses)
- diakonisshus noun (house inhabited by deaconesses)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Some years later, the famine of 1867 gave a flying start to the deaconess-house in Helsinki. Aurora Karamsin was to fulfill two goals, one was to meet the need for care for the poor and sick, the other was to provide women, including those from the educated classes, with an opportunity for “self-sacrificing work in the service of humanity”.
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The first of the Conferences was held in 1861, just twenty-five years after the founding of the first deaconess house at Kaiserwerth.
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