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Emmy Dörfel

German nurse

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ1338954 ↗
Source-derived summary

Emmy Dörfel (26 March 1908 – 18 May 2002) was a German nurse. She was awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal on 28 June 1963.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Emmy Dörfel” as german nurse. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Emmy, Dörfel and German.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1908, 2002, 1963—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1908-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Emmy, Dörfel and German providing the first useful test.
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Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1338954. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1908, 2002 and 1963.

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This entry incorporates text from “Emmy Dörfel” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.