W. Marshall / Wellcome Collection
Hildegard von Bingen
An engraving of Hildegard von Bingen, by W. Marshall. Hildegard von Bingen lived in the 1100s and was, to quote Wikipedia, "a German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary, and polymath."
Engraving courtesy of the Wellcome Collection.