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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 and practitioner of the Catholic Church. 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 cons…
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science · German nun and polymath (c.1098–1179) · naturalist · writer · composer · philosopher · illuminator · physician · nun · poet · theologian · abbess · also Hildegard of Bingen, Saint Hildegard, Saint Ildegarda di Bingen, Saint Hildegard of Bingen, St. Hildegard, Saint Hildegarde de Bingen
Born 1098 · Died 17 September 1179 · Q70991
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Published “Organised Genome Dynamics in the Escherichia coli Species Results in Highly Diverse Adaptive Paths” in PLoS Genetics — cited 990 times.
Published “Rapid and Simple Determination of the <i>Escherichia coli</i> Phylogenetic Group” in Applied and Environmental Microbiology — cited 2,244 times.
Its images are preserved in a hand-painted facsimile from the 1920s
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Died 1179-09-17.
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Career landmark: abbess (1136–1179).
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Born 1098.
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