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Hrotsvitha

(c930-1002) German writer. Hrotsvitha was a nun and poet, who was probably of aristocratic birth. Hrotsvitha has been called the first German poet.
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Hrotsvitha

(c930-1002) Germany writer. Hrotsvitha was a Saxon dramatist and chronicler. Her works were completed by 973 AD. Read more about Hrotsvitha.

Hrotsvitha

She wrote the first plays known to be written by a woman. Of Saxon background, she became canoness of a nunnery in Gandersheim, near Göttingen. The abbess was a niece of the Holy Roman Emperor, Otto I.

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