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. 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.
- Occupation
- naturalist, writer, composer, philosopher
- Position held
- abbess
- Citizenship
- Holy Roman Empire, Electoral Palatinate
- Born
- 1098
