 She has been considered by many in Europe to be the founder of scientific natural history in Germany.Hildegard's fellow nuns elected her as "magistra" in 1136; she founded the monasteries of Rupertsberg in 1150 and Eibingen in 1165.She wrote theological, botanical, and medicinal texts, as well as letters, liturgical songs for women choirs to sing and poems, while supervising miniature illuminations in the Rupertsberg manuscript of her first work, "Scivias".