Mittwoch, 5. November 2008

Maria Kunz from Liestal/BL: First Catholic medical missionary of Switzerland

One of the most important persons in the history of Swiss medical missionaries is the late Maria Kunz. Maria Kunz was the first Catholic missionary doctor in Switzerland. Not least she became well known in Switzerland and Germany for her great work at Glen Grey Hospital while this hospital was under the guidance of the Diocese of Queenstown until the mid 1970s.

Maria Kunz in the Historische Lexikon der Schweiz:
http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/d/D45423.php

Maria Kunz in the Personenlexikon of the Kanton Basel-land
http://www.baselland.ch/KUNZ_Maria-htm.294118.0.html

more information on Maria Kunz will follow in this place.