Florence nightingale biography for kids

Florence Nightingale, OM (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910), was an Englishnurse. She helped create the modern techniques of nursing.

Florence nightingale biography

She became a leader of the team of nurses who helped woundedsoldiers during the Crimean War.

Early years

Florence Nightingale was born into an upper classBritish family in 1820 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.

She was named after the town where she was born. The family moved back to London when Florence was a young girl. She was a Unitarian. Although her parents expected her to become a wife and a mother, in 1845 she decided to become a nurse.

Florence nightingale biography for kids

While she was training she campaigned for better conditions for poor people in Britain.

Nightingale's father educated her. Florence and her older sister Parthenope studied history, mathematics, Italian, classical literature, and philosophy.

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