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Elise Averdieck (1808-1907) was a German social activist, a deaconness, 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 deaconness and led a small community of likeminded women.
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.