Ruth Pfau
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Gender | Female |
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Death | 7 years ago |
Date of birth | September 9,1929 |
Zodiac sign | Virgo |
Born | Leipzig |
Germany | |
Date of died | August 10,2017 |
Died | The Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) |
Karachi | |
Pakistan | |
Place of burial | Gora Qabaristan, Karachi, Pakistan |
Alma mater | Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz |
Books | The Last Word is Love: Adventure, Medicine, War, and God |
Parents | Walther Pfau |
Martha Pfau | |
Education | Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz |
Awards | Hilal-i-Imtiaz |
Buried | Gora Qabristan, Karachi, Pakistan |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 934920 |
Ruth Pfau Life story
Ruth Katherina Martha Pfau, FCM was a German–Pakistani Catholic Christian religious sister and physician who was a member of the "Society of the Daughters of the Heart of Mary". She emigrated from Germany in 1961 and devoted more than 55 years of her life to fighting leprosy in Pakistan.