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was Hildegard of Bingen.
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Hildegard lived in the twelfth century.
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She came from the area of Bingen
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on the West Bank of the Rhine River in Germany.
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She grew up in a Benedictine convent.
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Here are the ruins of that Benedictine convent.
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And then she went on ultimately to found her own convent,
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and this is the these are the ruins
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or a seventeenth century drawing of that convent
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which is now also in ruins.
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Hildegard was a polymath.
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She could do many things.