Hildegard Of Bingen, German Polymath
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Hildegard Of Bingen, German Polymath
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Hildegard of Bingen (1098 - 1179) was a German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary, and polymath. She wrote theological, botanical, and medicinal texts, as well as letters, liturgical songs, and poems while supervising miniature illuminations in the Rupertsberg manuscript of her first work, Scivias. She has been recognized as a saint by branches of the Roman Catholic Church for centuries. Engraving by William Marshall, 1395.
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April 18th, 2016
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