(; ) ( 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 invented an alternative alphabet.

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.

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.

She had several rather fanatic followers, including Guibert of Gembloux, who wrote frequently to Hildegard and eventually became her secretary after Volmar died in 1173.

The beginning of what is now considered German music could be traced back to the 12th century compositions of mystic abbess Hildegard of Bingen, who wrote a variety of hymns and other kinds of Christian music.

Otto Brunfels ( c. 1489 – 1534 ), Leonhart Fuchs ( 1501 – 1566 ) and Hieronymus Bock ( 1498 – 1554 ) were known as the " German fathers of botany " although this title belies the fact that they trod in the steps of the scientifically feted Hildegard of Bingen whose writings on herbalism were Physica and Causae et Curae ( together known as Liber subtilatum ) of 1150.

In her first theological text, Scivias (" Know the Ways "), Hildegard describes her struggle within:

The songs from the Symphonia are set to Hildegard ’ s own text and range from antiphons, hymns, and sequences, to responsories.

His text is a commentary on Hildegard of Bingen's prophecy against friars, which was enshrined as proto-Protestant lore in Foxe's Actes and Monuments ..

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 ’ s participation in these arts speaks to her significance as a female rhetorician, transcending bans on women ’ s social participation and interpretation of Scripture.

German 10 DM commemorative coin issued by the Federal Republic of Germany ( 1998 ) designed by Carl Vezerfi-Clemm on the 900th anniversary of Hildegard of Bingen's birth

She was the inspiration for Dr. Gottfried Hertzka's " Hildegard-Medicine ", and is the namesake for June Boyce-Tillman's Hildegard Network, a healing center that focuses on a holistic approach to wellness and brings

Such a statement on her part, however, worked to her advantage because it made her statements that all of her writings and music came from visions of the Divine more believable, therefore giving Hildegard the authority to speak in a time and place where few women were permitted a voice.

Hildegard has been portrayed on film by Patricia Routledge in a dramatized BBC biographical documentary called " Hildegard Von Bingen In Portrait: Ordo Virtutum.

* Hildegard Knef on Europopmusic. eu ( English )

The liturgical cult of St. Hildegard of Bingen was officially extended to the universal Church by Pope Benedict XVI on 10 May 2012, clearing the way for her to be named a Doctor of the Church.

The tracks in this album are based on the compositions of 12th century German abbess Hildegard of Bingen, and the lyrics are in Latin and produced by House producer eric s.

The medal was presented to his widow, Hildegard, on 6 January 1942.

Edwin Johannes Hildegard Linkomies ( December 22, 1894 – September 9, 1963, until 1928 Edwin Flinck ) was Prime Minister of Finland March 1943 to August 1944, and one of the seven politicians sentenced to 5½ years in prison as allegedly responsible for the Continuation War, on the demand of the Soviet Union.

* Hildegard Knef, actress lived on Sedanstraße 68 ( Rote Insel ).

He was the first to translate Meister Eckhart into English from the critical German editions along with a commentary on his work and helped to launch the Hildegard of Bingen revival.

* Illuminations on Hildegard of Bingen Text by Hildegard of Bingen / Commentary by Matthew Fox ; ( 1985 ) Bear & Co. paperback ISBN 978-0-939680-21-4, Republished ( 2002 ) Bear & Company.

The first mention of the town ( as Chama ) occurred on 16 April 858 when King Louis the German gave the town to his daughter, Hildegard, the abbess of the Fraumünster Abbey in Zürich.

Elfriede Hildegard Mohneke ( born in Dorschen, East Prussia, Germany, on 2 March 1922, d. Berlin, 11 December 1994 ) was a guard at two Nazi concentration camps in World War II.

In Scivias, Hildegard focused foremost on viriditas as an attribute of the divine nature.