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Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim
Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim was a canoness of Gandersheim Abbey in Saxony and a Latin writer, regarded as the first known woman poet of Germany and the first known dramatist of the Latin West since antiquity. Writing around 960, she composed six plays modelled on those of Terence, verse legends of saints, and an epic in praise of Emperor Otto I, the Gesta Ottonis.
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