Roswitha von Gandersheim (938 - 973)

Short name Roswitha von Gandersheim
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First name Roswitha
Birth name Gandersheim
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Date of birth 938
Date of death 973
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Sex Female
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Lived in Germany
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Roswitha von Gandersheim was ...
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Receptions of Roswitha von Gandersheim, the person (for receptions of her works, see under each individual Work)
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Märkvärdiga qvinnor. Serie 1, Utländska qvinnor. Remarkable women. Series 1, Foreign women Ellen Fries 1890 is biography of
Hroswitha iz Gandersheima Hroswitha of Gandersheim 1901 is biography of
Zanimivosti iz nemškega slovstva Curiosities from German Literature Ivan Pregelj 1915 comments on person
MENTIONED IN: - Talvj, German Women Writers, 1861 p.18-38 - Lerner, Creation of Feminist Consciousness, 1993, discussed p.48-9.
Talvj wrote about Roswitha in her bio-bibliographical compilation TGWW> we do not know anything about her family or education. She herself writes her name Hrotsvith and calls herself "the strong voice or loud call from Gandersheim" (clamor validus Gandeshemensis). Writes about herself in her short introductions to her poems. The scholar Konrad Celtes found her manuscript at the End of 15th Century. Till then, nobody knew about Roswitha. - TO BE CONTINUED SHOULD BE COMPARED WITH WHAT WE KNOW TODAY. jujo oct 10 NOT MENTIONED IN: - Buck, Guide to women’s literature, 1992