Medieval · 1098–1179
Who influenced Hildegard of Bingen?
Influences and legacy
Abbess, composer, and visionary who wrote theology from a living light.
Hildegard of Bingen was influenced by Pseudo-Dionysius, and went on to influence Meister Eckhart. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Hildegard of Bingen?
Hildegard of Bingen, the "Sibyl of the Rhine", was a German Benedictine abbess who wrote theology, natural history, medicine, poetry, letters and liturgical music. Her convent at Disibodenberg elected her its head in 1136, and she founded the monasteries of Rupertsberg and Eibingen.
More of her chants survive than of any other medieval composer, and she wrote both their words and music; her Ordo Virtutum is arguably the oldest surviving morality play. She also invented a constructed language, the Lingua Ignota. Some scholars count her the founder of scientific natural history in Germany. In 2012 Pope Benedict XVI extended her cult to the whole Church and named her a Doctor of the Church.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Hildegard of Bingen?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- Pseudo-Dionysius c. 5th–6th c.
Who did Hildegard of Bingen influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on Hildegard of Bingen.
- Meister Eckhart c. 1260–1328
The line of teachers behind Hildegard of Bingen
The longest documented line of influence ending at Hildegard of Bingen runs 11 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
Two steps away from Hildegard of Bingen
Indirect influences
- Through Pseudo-Dionysius: Proclus
The second generation
- Through Meister Eckhart: Nicholas of Cusa
Contemporaries of Hildegard of Bingen
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Hildegard of Bingen, with no direct line between them.
- Peter Lombard c. 1096–1160
- Ibn Tufail c. 1105–1185
- Avempace c. 1085–1138
- Peter Abelard 1079–1142
- John of Salisbury c. 1120–1180
Hildegard of Bingen by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 20
- Thinkers downstream
- 113
- Wikipedia languages
- 92 — #9 of 58 among medieval philosophers
- Card rarity
- Epic
Questions about Hildegard of Bingen
- Who influenced Hildegard of Bingen?
- Pseudo-Dionysius.
- Who did Hildegard of Bingen influence?
- Meister Eckhart.
- When did Hildegard of Bingen live?
- 1098–1179. The map files Hildegard of Bingen under the medieval period.
- How rare is the Hildegard of Bingen card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Hildegard of Bingen in 92 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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