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Until the end of August, the Main Library – Medicine Careum will host the exhibition “Anna Heer (1863-1918)”. It was realized in collaboration with the historian Verena E. Müller, who wrote a biography of the Zurich nursing pioneer. Her biography “Anna Heer (1863-1918)”, published by efef-Verlag, is now available and will soon be on loan […]

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Fighting for social change is painful, often violent. If what has been achieved has become a matter of course, pioneers are quickly forgotten. Who of us commemorates the French Revolution and its victims gratefully at the mention of “human rights”? It is no different in the history of women. For more than a hundred years, […]

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Right from the start, Anna Heer, the founder of the Swiss School of Nursing (Schweizerische Pflegerinnenschule), also promoted a professional organization for nurses. The improvement of the training was also to be taken as an opportunity to demand adequate pay and correct working conditions. Employment agency While the school was still under construction, she and […]

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Anna Heer and Ida Schneider’s cruise to northern Europe Chief physician Anna Heer and head nurse Ida Schneider were close friends – even a couple perhaps – and spent their spare time together. They had known each other for exactly two decades, when they dared a great travel adventure. Instead of taking their usual holidays […]

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Anna Heer convinced the Swiss Charitable Women’s Association (Schweizerischer Gemeinnütziger Frauenverein) to support her idea of a nursing school with a hospital. However, the story did not go without power struggles. The founders had their own ideas and were more willing to take risks than many members of the association would have dared. Anna Heer […]

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Anna Heer at the first Swiss Women’s Congress in Geneva in 1896 The second half of the 19th century was a period of important world and national exhibitions. To this day, the Eiffel Tower commemorates the great event of 1889. For the Women’s Congress in Geneva, which took place as part of the second Swiss […]

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Despite all the obstacles, a few women succeeded in gaining access to higher education in the last decades of the 19th century. Almost by chance, the University of Zurich played a pioneering role. In 1864, two women from the Tsarist Empire expressed their interest in studying medicine. Zurich decided pragmatically to give the applicants a […]

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Surgeon – entrepreneur – pioneer of nursing care Even in our century, Anna Heer would be an exception, even more so she was in her time. To realize her vision, she demanded her own hospital in 1896 – seventy-five years before the introduction of women’s suffrage in Switzerland. Almost five years later, the Swiss School […]

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Physician and founder of the Swiss School of Nurses The Main Library – Medicine Careum presents an exhibition on the Swiss nursing pioneer Anna Heer from 18 February to 30 August 2019 to mark the 100th anniversary of her death. Anna Heer was one of the early medical students at the University of Zurich. In […]

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