Anna Hedvig Büll [SEP] sex or gender
more than 40 years of her life for the betterment of lives of Armenian refugees. On 29 April 1989, a memorial tablet was dedicated for her by the Armenian-Estonian Cultural Society on her birth house in Haapsalu, Kooli Street 5. Her memory is also preserved by a monument in Armenia and at the Armenian Genocide Museum in Yerevan. Among the refugees she helped to save and in Armenia she is sometimes referred to as the Mother of Armenians.
The lives of Anna Hedvig Büll and four other female humanists from Europe
Anna Hedvig Büll
Anna Hedvig Büll (born Anna Hedwig Bühl, – 3 October 1981) was an Estonian missionary of Baltic German extraction who helped to save the lives of several thousand Armenian orphans during the Armenian Genocide.
Hedvig Büll was born into a Lutheran family in 1887 in Haapsalu, Estonia, where her father owned a mud cure resort. She was the sixth of eight brothers and sisters. Büll attended a government school in Estonia until she was 15. Then she was sent for continued studies to Saint Petersburg,