Eleanor Krohn Herrmann
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Eleanor Krohn Herrmann | |
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| Born | February 1, 1935 New York City, New York, US |
| Died | July 31, 2012 (aged 77) |
| Spouse | Lawrence Herrmann |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Adelphi University (B.S.) University of Colorado (M.S.) Teachers College, Columbia University (EdD) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Nursing education Nursing history |
| Institutions | University of Connecticut |
Eleanor Krohn Herrmann (1935–2012) was an American nursing educator and historian who taught at several universities, concluding her career at the University of Connecticut (1987–1997).[1] She was co-curator of the Josephine Dolan Collection of Nursing History.[2]
Herrmann was born in New York City on February 1, 1935, to Swedish immigrant parents Martin and Ellen (Polson) Krohn. She grew up on a farm in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. When she was 13, her father died when his tractor crushed him, leaving her mother, a teacher, to raise five children. Hermann worked her way through college, earning her bachelor's degree in 1957 in nursing from Adelphi University and becoming an emergency room nurse. She then earned her first master's degree in 1960 at the University of Colorado and her master's in 1976 and doctoral degrees in 1979 in education at Teachers College, Columbia University.[3][4] Herrmann's 1979 doctoral dissertation was entitled The Development of Nursing Education in Belize (British Honduras), Central America, 1920-1970.[5]
Career
Hermann taught nursing, alternative nursing, nursing ethics, and nursing history at the University of Wyoming, Syracuse University, the University of Colorado, Cornell University, and Yale University. She received Yale's Annie Goodrich Award for Excellence in Teaching.[4] She concluded her career at the University of Connecticut, where she taught for a decade until her retirement in 1997. She was co-curator of the UConn's School of Nursing's Josephine Dolan Collection of Nursing History, developed by her friend and colleague Josephine Dolan.[1]
Committed to social justice, Herrmann was active in nursing education and professional development initiatives in Central and South America. She served as the World Health Organization’s advisor to Belize's nursing school in the late 1970s and conducted oral history interviews and preserved crumbling records into the late 1980s.[4]
Herrmann was a charter member and past president of the American Association for the History of Nursing. She authored several books and many journal articles and served on editorial boards and review panels for several scholarly journals. She was a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and a member of Sigma Theta Tau, the Cheshire Historical Society, the Women's Auxiliary of the Silver City Detachment Marine Corps League, and the Standardbred Retirement Foundation.[3]
