Ernestine Wiedenbach

Ernestine Wiedenbach (August 18, 1900 in Hamburg, Germany – March 8, 1998) was a nursing theorist. Her family emigrated to New York in 1909, where she later received a B.A. from Wellesley College in 1922, an R.N. from Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in 1925, an M.A. from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1934, and a certificate in nurse-midwifery from the Maternity Center Association School for Nurse-Midwives in New York in 1946.

Wiedenbach taught there until 1951, and in 1952, joined the Yale University faculty as an instructor in maternity nursing. She was named an assistant professor of obstetric nursing in 1954 and an associate professor in 1956 when the Yale School of Nursing established a master's degree program under which she directed the major in maternal and newborn health nursing. Wiedenbach's books are used widely in nursing education. She retired in 1966. Provided by Wikipedia