Marie Simon

Marie Simon, born Marie Jannasch in 1824 and died in 1877, was a Sorbian nurse who helped found the Albert Association, a forerunner of the German Red Cross. She began as a battlefield nurse in the Austro-Prussian War and later became one of the principal German nurses of the Franco-Prussian War, organising the nursing staff and the distribution of food at the military hospital in Nancy. Afterwards she set up several medical facilities in Dresden and devoted the rest of her life to training new nurses. She was held in high regard in Germany, and a physician of her time called her the Saxon Florence Nightingale.