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Hildegard of Bingen

1098 – 1179

Abbess, composer, and author of the first known European medical texts by a woman.

Germany·Medicine · Literature

Ibn Rushd (Averroes)

1126 – 1198

His Aristotle commentaries restarted European philosophy.

Spain·Philosophy · Medicine

Maimonides

1138 – 1204

Guide for the Perplexed reconciled reason and revelation for Judaism.

Spain·Philosophy · Medicine