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Hrotsvitha
German secular canoness, dramatist, and poet
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 935
- Died
- 968
- Place of birth
- Duchy of Saxony
- Place of death
- Bad Gandersheim
- Sex or gender
- female
- Given name
- Roswitha
- Field of work
- poetry, spoken drama
- Occupation
- playwright, hagiographer, poet, writer, canoness, abbess
- Position held
- canoness
- Citizenship
- East Francia
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- canonization status
- saint
- described by source
- Lexikon deutschsprachiger Epik und Dramatik von Autorinnen 1730–1900, Svensk uppslagsbok, Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Of Six Mediæval Women, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Women Writers of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, Metzler Autorinnen Lexikon (1 ed.), A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The Encyclopedia Americana, Otto's encyclopedia
- different from
- Hrotsvita von Gandersheim
- documentation files at
- SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
- feast day
- September 18
- has works in the collection
- National Gallery of Art
- influenced by
- Terence
- languages spoken, written or signed
- medieval Latin
- notable work
- Maria, Preface to saints' lives, Abraham, De ascensione Domini, Passio sancti Gongolfi martyris, Passio sancti Pelagii martyris, Conversio cuiusdam iuvenis desperati per sanctum Basilium episcopum, Theophilus, Passio sancti Dionysii egregii martyris, Passio sanctae Agnetis virginis et martyris, Gallicanus, Prologue to the comedies
- relative
- Hrotsvita von Gandersheim
- religious order
- Benedictines
- residence
- Gandersheim Abbey
- topic's main category
- Category:Hrotsvitha
- writing language
- medieval Latin
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