Herald of landsberg biography
Herald of landsberg biography summary.
History of Scientific Women
Herrad of LANDSBERG
Middle ages
Fields:Biology, Encyclopaedist
Born: 1130 in Landsberg (Germany)
Death: 1195 in Mont St.
Odile (France)
Main achievements: Author of the pictorial encyclopedia Hortus deliciarum.
Herrad of Landsberg (Latin: Herrada Landsbergensis; c. 1130 – July 25, 1195) was a 12th-century Alsatian nun and abbess of Hohenburg Abbey in the Vosges mountains.
Herald of landsberg biography
She was known as the author of the pictorial encyclopedia Hortus deliciarum (The Garden of Delights).
Born about 1130 at the castle of Landsberg, the seat of a noble Alsatian family. She entered the Hohenburg Abbey in the Vosges mountains, about fifteen miles from Strasbourg, at an early age.
The Hohenburg Abbey, also known as Mont St. Odile, was run by Abbess Relinda, a nun sent from the Benedictine monastery of Bergen in Bavaria to Hohenburg Abbey. Due to her support from the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa the abbey was extremely successful and