Hildegard of Bingen
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![Scivias I.6: The Choirs of Angels. From the Rupertsberg manuscript, fol. 38r.](/Images/godic/202501/18/07angels-hildegard_von_bingen5346.jpg")
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Hildegard of Bingen, O.S.B. (German:Hildegard von Bingen; Latin:Hildegardis Bingensis) (1098 – 17 September 1179), also known as Saint Hildegard and Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary, and polymath. She is considered to be the founder of scientific natural history in Germany.