Countess Anna of Stolberg-Wernigerode (6 September 1819 – 17 February 1868) was a German noblewoman. She was a deaconess and matron of the ("Bethany") hospital in

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Life

Anna was the eighth child of Count

Anton of Stolberg-Wernigerode Count Anton zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (23 October 1785 − 11 February 1854), was chief minister in Magdeburg, governor in the Prussian Province of Saxony and Prussian Minister of State. Life Count Anton was a fourth son of the reigning Count Chr ...

and his wife, Baroness Louise von der Recke. She was born in Peterswaldau in

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. She had a sense of charity even as a child. In 1834, the family moved to

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. In 1834, her parents founded an infant school and in 1836, they founded the first Deaconess Association in the Rhenish-Westphalian area. From 1837 to 1840, the family lived in

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; then they moved to

. In Berlin, Anna attended the newly founded deaconess hospital called ("Bethany"). In 1854, she became a deaconess and deputy matron. In 1855, she took over management as matron of the hospital. She held this position until her death. She died in 1868, at the age of 48.

References

* Arnold Wellmer: Anna, Gräfin zu Stolberg-Wernigerode, second edition, Bielefeld 1870 * 1819 births 1868 deaths People from the Province of Silesia 19th-century German people Anna Stolberg-Wernigerode People from Dzierżoniów County {{Germany-noble-stub