Lucia Pytter

Lucia Pytter (10 April 1726 - 9 October 1825), was a Norwegian philanthropist. She is known for her social projects in Bergen and referred to as a pioneer of social work in her country.

She was the daughter of the German merchant Johann Müller and married to the merchant Martin Görbitz in 1778 and the merchant Frantz Anton Pytter in 1801. She lived in Bergen in Norway after her first marriage in 1778.

She had a soup kitchen for 30 poor families every Wednesday, and organized collections for food for the poor. In 1799, she founded a professional handicrafts school for females, and she also founded a leprosy asylum for females. She participated in the press in the debate of social issues, and published a work about social care. She is considered to be the author behind the anonymously published collection of poems Svarte-Digen from 1794.

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