Hildegard of Bingen

Hildegard of Bingen

(1097–1179) naturalist Holy Roman Empire

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[Wikidata] German Benedictine abbess, polymath, mystic and Doctor of Church (1098–1179)... | [Wikipedia] Hildegard of Bingen, also known as the Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath, active during the High Middle Ages as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and as a medical writer and practitioner of the Catholic Church. She is one of the best-known composers o

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

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Physica|Scivias|Liber divinorum operum|Ordo Virtutum|Causae et curae|Liber vitae meritorum|Vita sancti Ruperti|Vita sancti Dysibodi|Explanatio regulae sancti Benedicti|Letters|Solutiones|Explanatio symboli sancti Athanasii|Expositiones evangeliorum|O viridissima virga

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