List of Famous people with last name Bingen

Hildegard of Bingen

First Name Hildegard

Born on January 1, 1098

Died on September 17, 1179 (aged 81)

Born in Germany, Rhineland-Palatinate

Hildegard of Bingen, also known as Saint Hildegard and the Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary, and polymath of the High Middle Ages. She is one of the best-known composers of sacred monophony, as well as the most-recorded in modern history. She has been considered by many in Europe to be the founder of scientific natural history in Germany.

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Jacques Bingen

First Name Jacques

Last Name Bingen

Born on March 16, 1908

Died on May 12, 1944 (aged 36)

Born in France, Île-de-France, Paris

Jacques Bingen was a high-ranking member of the French Resistance during World War II who, when captured by the Gestapo, chose to commit suicide rather than risk divulging what he knew under torture.

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