Fliedner, THEODOR, founder of the Protestant order of Deaconesses (q.v.), was born in Nassau in 1800, and in 1822 became pastor of Kaiserswerth, near Düsseldorf, where in 1836 he founded the first deaconesses' home and a seminary for infant-school teachers, besides other institutions. He died 4th October 1864.
Fliedner, THEODOR
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 678
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