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Rijckebusch, Marie-Louise
Identity
Category
Person (Female)
Alternative name or descriptor
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Amateur
Details
Life dates
Abeele-Watou-lez-Poperinge, 1871 - Luluabourg [Congo], 1896
Activity
1892 * - 1896 + Congo
° 15.5.1871; + 13.10.1896. Also transcribed Ryckebusch; known by her religious name of Sister Marie-Godelieve. Nun and missionary of the “Sœurs de la Charité de Gand”. One of the first female Catholic missionaries to the Congo and almost certainly the first woman to photograph there. Her photographs of the Moanda mission were reproduced in the Sceutist periodical "Missions en Chine et au Congo". She succumbed to a bacterial infection contracted in the course of her mission.
° 15.5.1871; + 13.10.1896. Also transcribed Ryckebusch; known by her religious name of Sister Marie-Godelieve. Nun and missionary of the “Sœurs de la Charité de Gand”. One of the first female Catholic missionaries to the Congo and almost certainly the first woman to photograph there. Her photographs of the Moanda mission were reproduced in the Sceutist periodical "Missions en Chine et au Congo". She succumbed to a bacterial infection contracted in the course of her mission.
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1892 * - 1896 + Congo
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Record source
DIRECTORY_2017#1008
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Dates of creation/revision
SFJ new 11.12.2018; revised 13.5.2019 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght