Staat Hildegard in de Bijbel? Nee, het is een oude Duitse naam

Hildegard is not in the Bible. It is an Old German name made from hilt, “battle,” and gart, “enclosure” or “yard,” and it has no Hebrew root. Christians know it through Hildegard of Bingen, a twelfth-century Benedictine abbess, writer and composer whom Pope Benedict XVI declared a Doctor of the Church in 2012. Where does the name Hildegard come from? Hildegard belongs to the large family of Germanic names built from two words. Its first element, hilt or hildi, “battle,”…