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• • • Hildegard of Bingen (German: Hildegard von Bingen;: Hildegardis Bingensis; 1098 – 17 September 1179), also known as Saint Hildegard and of the, was a German, writer, composer, philosopher,,,. She is considered to be the founder of scientific in Germany. Hildegard was elected by her fellow nuns in 1136; she founded the monasteries of in 1150 and in 1165. One of her works as a composer, the, is an early example of liturgical drama and arguably the oldest surviving. She wrote theological, botanical, and medicinal texts, as well as letters, songs, and poems, while supervising miniature in the Rupertsberg manuscript of her first work,.

She is also noted for the invention of a known as. Although the history of her formal consideration is complicated, she has been recognized as a saint by branches of the Roman Catholic Church for centuries. On 7 October 2012, named her a. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Biography [ ] Hildegard was born around the year 1098, although the exact date is uncertain. Her parents were Mechtild of Merxheim-Nahet and Hildebert of Bermersheim, a family of the free lower nobility in the service of the Count Meginhard of. Sickly from birth, Hildegard is traditionally considered their youngest and tenth child, although there are records of only seven older siblings.

In her Vita, Hildegard states that from a very young age she had experienced. Monastic life [ ] Perhaps because of Hildegard's visions, or as a method of political positioning (or both), Hildegard's parents offered her as an to the monastery at the, which had been recently reformed in the. The date of Hildegard's enclosure at the monastery is the subject of debate. Her says she was professed with an older woman,, the daughter of Count Stephan II of Sponheim, at the age of eight. However, Jutta's date of enclosure is known to have been in 1112, when Hildegard would have been fourteen.

Their vows were received by Bishop Otto Bamberg on All Saints' Day, 1112. Some scholars speculate that Hildegard was placed in the care of Jutta at the age of eight, and the two women were then enclosed together six years later. In any case, Hildegard and Jutta were enclosed together at the Disibodenberg, and formed the core of a growing community of women attached to the male monastery. Robotstudio 6.01 crack.

Jutta was also a visionary and thus attracted many followers who came to visit her at the cloister. Hildegard tells us that Jutta taught her to read and write, but that she was unlearned and therefore incapable of teaching Hildegard sound biblical interpretation.

The written record of the Life of Jutta indicates that Hildegard probably assisted her in reciting the psalms, working in the garden and other handiwork, and tending to the sick. This might have been a time when Hildegard learned how to play the ten-stringed., a frequent visitor, may have taught Hildegard simple psalm notation. The time she studied music could have been the beginning of the compositions she would later create. Upon Jutta's death in 1136, Hildegard was unanimously elected as magistra of the community by her fellow nuns.