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Hildegard von Bingen

Hildegard von Bingen

Born: 1098, Bermersheim vor der Hohe, Germany

Died: 17th November 1179, Bingen, Germany

Nationality: German

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 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. She has been considered by a number of scholars to be the founder of scientific natural history in Germany.

Hildegard's convent at Disibodenberg elected her as magistra (mother superior) in 1136. She founded the monasteries of Rupertsberg in 1150 and Eibingen in 1165.

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