Rikke Nissen

Ulrikke Eleonore "Rikke" Nissen (16 March 1834 – 10 January 1892) was a Norwegian nursing teacher; the first female nursing teacher in Norway.

She was born in Trondhjem as a daughter of merchant Martinus Nissen (1800–1836) and Ida Susanne Amalie Hagerup (1808–1885). Her father died when she was only one year old, and she grew up in Romedal Municipality after her mother married Severin Henrik Ræder (1800–1878). She was a sister of Bolette Gjør, niece of Hartvig Nissen, grandniece of Henrich Steffens, great-granddaughter of Martinus Lind Nissen and a first cousin of Prime Minister Francis Hagerup. She was an aunt of Claus Riiber.

She was homeschooled until 1847, when she enrolled in Lotz Girls School in Christiania. From 1884 to 1891 Nissen edited the magazine Fra Diakonissehuset.

Between 1885 and 1888 she stayed in Germany to overcome rheumatism. She wrote two books in German following this stay: Norwegische Bilder aus der Geschichte der weiblichen Diakonie, nebst anderen Liebeswerken (1886) and Henriette Gislesen und ihre Freunde. Ein Bild aus der norwegischen Kirche (1890). She died in January 1892 in Kristiania and was buried at Vår Frelsers gravlund.