Saint Hildegard of Bingen (c. 1098-1179), wood engraving, published 1883 - stock illustration

Saint Hildegard of Bingen (c. 1098 - 1179) - a German Benedictine abbess and polymath active as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and as a medical writer and practitioner during the High Middle Ages. She is one of the best-known composers of sacred monophony, as well as the most recorded in modern history. She has been considered by a number of scholars to be the founder of scientific natural history in Germany. Wood engraving, published in 1883.