Hrotsvitha
German secular canoness, dramatist, and poet · Writers · Lived 935 to 968 · aged 33
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.
Hrotsvitha is read about 136 times a day, in 32 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 104 days, one point a day.
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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.
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Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 935 to 968 · aged 33
