S2023-216d

The Faces of Gwangju: Foreigners 》The Nightingale of Korea: Elisabeth Johanna Shepping and the History of Nursing in Korea

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• Elisabeth Johanna Shepping (1880-1934) was a German-born American nurse and missionary who served in Korea from 1912 until her death.
• In 1918, she founded Neel Girls' School in Gwangju together with Lois Swinehart. She also served as a nurse at Chejung Hospital.
• She wrote and translated the first nursing textbooks in Korean. In 1923, she founded the Chosun Nurses Association which later became the Korean Nurses Association.
• She was also a vocal advocate for the rights of those with leprosy.
• Shepping is known for having lived a modest life and for having actively assimilated into Korean society. She rescued many girls, even adopting 13 of them.
• She is buried in Yangnim-dong Missionary Cemetary.
• In 1937, a biography of her life was written by Lois Swinehart in the book Glorious Living: Informal Sketches of Seven Women Missionaries of the Presbyterian Church, U.S., and a documentary was made of her life in 2017.

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