Hildegard of Bingen
Hildegard of Bingen OSB, also known as the Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath active as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and as a medical writer and practitioner of the Catholic Church during the High Middle Ages. She is one of the best-known composers of sacred monophony, as well as the most recorded in modern history. A number of scholars has considered her to be the founder of scientific natural history in Germany.
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- Bermersheim vor der Höhe
- Educated at
- Disibodenberg
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1098
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Birth1179
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