# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hrotsvitha
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:28:36.244Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hrotsvitha"
name: "Hrotsvitha"
slug: "hrotsvitha"
description: "Hrotsvitha was a secular canoness who wrote drama and Christian poetry under the Ottonian dynasty. She was born in Bad Gandersheim to Saxon nobles and entered Gandersheim Abbey as a canoness. She is considered the first female writer from the Germanosphere, the first person since the Fall of the Roman Empire to write dramas in the Latin West, and the first German female poet."
tagline: "German secular canoness, dramatist, and poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roswitha_of_Gandersheim.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "935"
deathDate: "968"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.27
  momentum:             0
  historical:           20.940184
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Roswitha_di_Gandersheim"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AB%D8%A7"
    title: "هروتسفيثا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrotsvitha"
    title: "Hrotsvitha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0_%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0"
    title: "Хросвита Гандерсхаймска"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswitha_de_Gandersheim"
    title: "Roswitha de Gandersheim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswitha_z_Gandersheimu"
    title: "Roswitha z Gandersheimu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrotsvit"
    title: "Hrotsvit"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A1%CE%BF%CF%83%CE%B2%CE%AF%CF%84%CE%B1"
    title: "Ροσβίτα"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrotsvitha"
    title: "Hrotsvitha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrosvitha"
    title: "Hrosvitha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hroswitha_de_Gandersheim"
    title: "Hroswitha de Gandersheim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrotsvitha"
    title: "Hrotsvitha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrotsvitha"
    title: "Hrotsvitha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrotsvita_de_Gandersheim"
    title: "Hrotsvita de Gandersheim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrosvitha_de_Gandersheim"
    title: "Hrosvitha de Gandersheim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%96%D7%95%D7%95%D7%99%D7%AA%D7%94_%D7%9E%D7%92%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%A8%D7%A1%D7%94%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9D"
    title: "רוזוויתה מגנדרסהיים"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrotsvitha"
    title: "Hrotsvitha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrotsvitha"
    title: "Hrotsvitha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswitha_di_Gandersheim"
    title: "Roswitha di Gandersheim"
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    title: "ロスヴィータ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ჰროსვითა განდერსჰაიმელი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrotsvitha_Gandeshemensis"
    title: "Hrotsvitha Gandeshemensis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hroswitha_van_Gandersheim"
    title: "Hroswitha van Gandersheim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrosvit"
    title: "Hrosvit"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrotsvitha"
    title: "Hrotsvitha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosvita_de_Gandersheim"
    title: "Rosvita de Gandersheim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170248"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump