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| Averdieck was the second daughter of the ] merchant Georg Friedrich Averdieck (1774-1839). Besides two years spent in Berlin (1813-1825), she lived in Hamburg all of her life.<ref name="Mager">{{cite book|last=Mager|first=Inge|editor=Johann Anselm Steiger|title=Fünf hundert Jahre Theologie in Hamburg|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=qR12bdI0KisC&pg=PA211|year=2005|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=9783110185294|pages=189–224|chapter=Weibliche Theologie im Horizont der Hamburger Erweckung: Amalie Sieveking (1794-1859) und Elise Averdieck (1808-1907)}}</ref> | Averdieck was the second daughter of the ] merchant Georg Friedrich Averdieck (1774-1839). Besides two years spent in Berlin (1813-1825), she lived in Hamburg all of her life.<ref name="Mager">{{cite book|last=Mager|first=Inge|editor=Johann Anselm Steiger|title=Fünf hundert Jahre Theologie in Hamburg|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=qR12bdI0KisC&pg=PA211|year=2005|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=9783110185294|pages=189–224|chapter=Weibliche Theologie im Horizont der Hamburger Erweckung: Amalie Sieveking (1794-1859) und Elise Averdieck (1808-1907)}}</ref> | ||
| The first half of her life she was a teacher, a writer, and a nurse; only in the second half of her life did she become a ] and led a small community of |
The first half of her life she was a teacher, a writer, and a nurse; only in the second half of her life did she become a ] and led a small community of like-minded women. She grew up in a Hamburg where poverty had increased greatly since the beginning of the 19th century, and although there were both state-supported and private initiatives to alleviate the fate of the poor, these efforts were not well coordinated and were frequently based on completely different ideas on what caused poverty, and what it meant. For Averdieck, poverty came from God and was thus a blessing in its own right. Though she considered the experience of poverty to be educational, she did not feel the plight of poverty needn't be improved, and among those who, like her, came to social work trough Lutheran piety, this was a strong imperative to act.<ref name="Albrecht"/> | ||
| ==References== | ==References== | ||
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Elise Averdieck (1808-1907) was a German social activist, a deaconess, and writer. A friend of Amalie Sieveking, whose charitable work she continued, she is regarded as a figure typical of the Erweckung, the socially active Christian revival sweeping through Germany in the 19th century.
Averdieck was the second daughter of the Hamburg merchant Georg Friedrich Averdieck (1774-1839). Besides two years spent in Berlin (1813-1825), she lived in Hamburg all of her life.
The first half of her life she was a teacher, a writer, and a nurse; only in the second half of her life did she become a deaconess and led a small community of like-minded women. She grew up in a Hamburg where poverty had increased greatly since the beginning of the 19th century, and although there were both state-supported and private initiatives to alleviate the fate of the poor, these efforts were not well coordinated and were frequently based on completely different ideas on what caused poverty, and what it meant. For Averdieck, poverty came from God and was thus a blessing in its own right. Though she considered the experience of poverty to be educational, she did not feel the plight of poverty needn't be improved, and among those who, like her, came to social work trough Lutheran piety, this was a strong imperative to act.
References
- ^ Albrecht, Ruth (2006). Adelheid M. von Hauff (ed.). Frauen gestalten Diakonie: Vom 18. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert. W. Kohlhammer Verlag. pp. 200–18. ISBN 9783170193246.
- Mager, Inge (2005). "Weibliche Theologie im Horizont der Hamburger Erweckung: Amalie Sieveking (1794-1859) und Elise Averdieck (1808-1907)". In Johann Anselm Steiger (ed.). Fünf hundert Jahre Theologie in Hamburg. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 189–224. ISBN 9783110185294.