(; ) ( 1098 – 17 September 1179 ), also known as Saint Hildegard, and Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, Benedictine abbess, visionary, and polymath.

Hildegard also tells us that Jutta taught her to read and write, but that she was unlearned and therefore incapable of teaching Hildegard Biblical interpretation.

This also might have been a time when Hildegard learned how to play the ten-stringed psaltery.

Abbot Kuno of Disibodenberg also asked Hildegard to be Prioress, which would be under his authority.

Hildegard also wrote nearly 400 letters to correspondents ranging from Popes to Emperors to abbots and abbesses ; two volumes of material on natural medicine and cures ; an invented language called the Lingua ignota ; various minor works, including a gospel commentary and two works of hagiography ; and three great volumes of visionary theology: Scivias, Liber vitae meritorum (" Book of Life's Merits " or " Book of the Rewards of Life "), and Liber divinorum operum (" Book of Divine Works ").

In addition to her music, Hildegard also wrote three books of visions, the first of which, her Scivias (" Know the Way "), was completed in 1151.

Hildegard also wrote Physica, a text on the natural sciences, as well as Causae et Curae.

Hildegard of Bingen also appears in the calendar of saints of various Anglican churches, such as that of the Church of England, in which she is commemorated on 17 September.

Hildegard has also become a figure of reverence within the contemporary New Age movement, mostly due to her holistic and natural view of healing, as well as her status as a mystic.

Sophiologist Robert Powell writes that hermetic astrology proves the match, and artist mystic Carl Schroeder claims to also be in the same lineage of Hildegard with the support and validation of reincarnation researchers Walter Semkiw and Kevin Ryerson.

He also considered and approved the works of Hildegard of Bingen.

Louis also founded the Fraumünster abbey in 853 for his daughter Hildegard.

She has also played several real-life characters for television including Barbara Pym, and, in a dramatised BBC Omnibus biographical documentary of 1994, Hildegard of Bingen.

St Hildegard of Bingen preserves an unusual Latin vocabulary that was in use in her convent, and which appears in a few of her poems ; this invention may also be influenced by Hiberno-Latin.

She also wrote about other figures in whom she was interested, including Hildegard of Bingen and the poet Coventry Patmore.

The monk himself relates that he was raised by Adalbert, a former soldier who had fought against the Saxons, the Avars (" Huns " in his text ) and the Slavs under the command of Kerold, brother of Hildegard, Charlemagne's second wife ; he was also a friend of Adalbert's son, Werinbert, another monk at Saint Gall, who died as the book was in progress.

IFOR branches and affiliates in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East grew consistently also thanks to the work of Jean Goss and Hildegard Goss-Mayr from Paris and Vienna, three times nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

The work of earlier Catholic theologians on masculinity and femininity, such as Hildegard of Bingen, Edith Stein and G. E. M. Anscombe, has also become recently influential in the development of New Feminism.

Saint Hildegard of Bingen, a famous Christian mystic, also lived here for a while.

She was also favored in the court of Pippin III, and Hildegard, wife of Charlemagne, was her friend.

Contributing to Christian European rhetorical traditions, Hildegard “ authorized herself as a theologian ” through alternative rhetorical arts.

Magnus ' writings made a significant contribution to German mysticism, which became vibrant in the minds of the Beguines and women such as Hildegard of Bingen and Mechthild of Magdeburg.

However a few German films and film-makers did achieve international recognition at this time, among them Bernhard Wicki's Oscar-nominated Die Brücke ( The Bridge ) ( 1959 ), and the actresses Hildegard Knef and Romy Schneider.

* 12th century – Hildegard of Bingen is reputed to have spoken and sung in tongues.

In Roman Catholic mysticism, Hildegard of Bingen celebrated Sophia as a cosmic figure both in her writing and art.

In the 12th century, German Benedictine abbess Hildegard von Bingen ( 1098 – 1179 ) wrote several influential theological, botanical, and medicinal texts, as well as letters, liturgical songs, poems, and arguably the oldest surviving morality play, while supervising brilliant miniature Illuminations.

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Saint Hildegard of Bingen, O. S. B.

On 10 May 2012, Pope Benedict XVI extended the liturgical cult of St. Hildegard to the universal Church, in a process known as " equivalent canonization ".

On 27 May 2012, the Pope announced that, on 7 October 2012, he will declare St. Hildegard to be the 35th Doctor of the Church.

Hildegard was raised in a family of free nobles.

In her Vita, Hildegard explains that from a very young age she had experienced visions.

However, Jutta's enclosure date is known to be in 1112, at which time Hildegard would have been fourteen.

Some scholars speculate that Hildegard was placed in the care of Jutta, the daughter of Count Stephan II of Sponheim, at the age of eight, before the two women were enclosed together six years later.

It is possible that Hildegard could have been a chantress and a worker in the herbarium and infirmarium.

In any case, Hildegard and Jutta were enclosed at Disibodenberg in the Palatinate Forest in what is now Germany.

Hildegard and Jutta most likely prayed, meditated, read scriptures such as the psalter, and did some sort of handwork during the hours of the Divine Office.

Volmar, a frequent visitor, may have taught Hildegard simple psalm notation.

During the Civil War period Mr. Brown also invented the Brown & Sharpe formed tooth gear cutter, a basic invention which ultimately revolutionized the world's gear manufacturing industry by changing its basic economics.

One of the finest soft shoe tunes ever invented, `` Once In Love With Amy '' is also, of course, one of the most tantalizingly persistent of light love lyrics to come out of American musical comedy in our era.

The surviving fragments also show that Alexis invented a great deal of words, mostly compound words, that he used normal words in an unusual way, and made strange and unusual forms of common words.

These experiments also led to a number of patents: for example, he invented a new form of laminated bent-plywood furniture in 1932.

There is also a theory that the form was invented by the 12th-century poet Alexander of Paris.

The commission, which also included six other sports executives, labored for three years, after which it declared that Abner Doubleday invented the national pastime.

The dandy horse, also called Draisienne or laufmaschine, was the first human means of transport to use only two wheels in tandem and was invented by the German Baron Karl von Drais.

Bubble tea, also known as pearl tea or boba tea, is a tea-based drink invented in tea shops in Taichung, Taiwan, during the 1980s.

Broughton also invented and encouraged the use of " mufflers ", a form of padded gloves, which were used in training and exhibitions.

" The IBM COMTRAN language invented by Bob Bemer was also drawn upon, but the FACT language specification from Honeywell was not distributed to committee members until late in the process and had relatively little impact.

The Romans also invented the superposed order.

One of the earliest rifled cannon was the breech-loading Armstrong Gun — also invented by William George Armstrong — which boasted significantly improved range, accuracy, and power than earlier weapons.

Given Chrétien's known tendency to create new stories and characters, being the first to mention the hero Lancelot and his love affair with Queen Guinevere for example, the name might also be entirely invented.

The band also maintains that the Levi's story was completely fictitious and invented by Biafra to discredit them.

Tennant was also in charge of the Marlboro account and invented the Marlboro Man.

" In 1954, Stagg disputed Cochems ' claim to have invented the forward pass :" Eddie Cochems, who coached at St. Louis University in 1906, also claimed to have invented the pass as we know it today ...

Being one of the first film hyphenates ( film director, editor and engineer ) Porter also invented and utilized some of the very first ( albeit primitive ) special effects such as double exposures, miniatures and split-screens.

" Fanzines " were distinguished from " prozines ," ( a term Chauvenet also invented ): that is, all professional magazines.

This is closely tied to the functional integral formulation of quantum mechanics, also invented by Feynman – see path integral formulation.

He also invented the backscatter photometer ozone-monitoring instrument for early versions of weather satellites.

Portable projectors ( cheirosiphōnes ) were also invented, reputedly by Emperor Leo VI.

He also invented the idea for one of Punch's best cartoons, " Dropping the Pilot ".

A few modern scholars have argued that Herodotus exaggerated the extent of his travels and invented his sources yet his reputation continues largely intact: " The Father of History is also the father of comparative anthropology ", " the father of ethnography ", and he is " more modern than any other ancient historian in his approach to the ideal of total history ".