| Abstract: | Systematic education in professional nursing was established during 1782 in Germany by the general practitioner and midwife lecturer Franz Anton Mai. The second institution of this kind was opened in Karlsruhe during 1784 by the general practitioner Christian Ludwig Schweickhard. The archives in Karlsruhe showed that Mai also founded this second institution and gave the first lectures, while Schweickhard continued the lectures until 1811. On the one hand this shows the importance of the foundation of the nursing schools by Franz Anton Mai and on the other hand points out that the first nursing schools in Germany were strongly influenced by already existing schools for midwives. |
