Chapter 4

FLIEDNER, THE RESTORER OF THE OFFICE OF DEACONESS.

Efforts for the restoration of the office of deaconess made by Klönne--Amalie Sieveking--Von Stein--Count von der Recke-- Fliedner--His childhood--Youth--Student life--Pastorate and travels--Marriage--First prison society--Founding of refuge-- Need of training schools--Rhenish-Westphalian Deaconess Society 46