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. 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. 935 – 968; died at about 32. Alive at the same time as Farabi, Sylvester II, Vladimir the Great, Erik the Red, and Ferdowsi. Wiki link