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Anna Heer (1863-1918), founder of the Pflegerinnenschule

The Main Library – Medicine Careum invites you to an entertaining reading at the Careum Bistro on Wednesday 27 February 2019 at 6 pm. The historian Verena E. Müller – known as the biographer of the first Swiss female doctor Marie-Heim Vögtlin – will read from her forthcoming biography of the Zurich nursing pioneer Anna Heer. The foundation of the Swiss School of Nurses and the accompanying Women’s Hospital in Zurich in 1901 was the beginning of nursing as a profession in Switzerland. For the first time, young women were able to complete nursing training without having to enter a religious community.

Anna Heer was for many years a formative figure for nursing in Switzerland. She was chief physician at the School of Nurses and president of the Swiss Nursing Association (now Schweizer Berufsverband der Pflegefachfrauen und Pflegefachmänner SBK), which she also co-founded. Her unusual Women’s Hospital “by women for women”, which was run entirely by female staff, attracted a great deal of attention and was a milestone in the career of women in medicine. Thanks to Verena E. Müller’s carefully researched biography, we can rediscover the almost forgotten life story of this extraordinary woman.

The reading is part of the exhibition “Anna Heer (1863-1918)” which will take place from 18 February to 30 August 2019 in the Main Library – Medicine Careum.

Date: Wednesday 27. February 2019
Time: 18 o’clock
Location: Careum Bistro, Gloriastrasse 18, 8006 Zurich, Switzerland
Admission free, no registration necessary.