What is "hrotsvitha"

Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim (; c. 935 – c. 1002) was a 10th-century German secular canoness, dramatist and poet who lived at Gandersheim Abbey in modern-day Bad Gandersheim, Lower Saxony, established by the Ottonian dynasty. She wrote in Latin, and is considered by some to be the first person since antiquity to compose drama in the Latin West. She has also been called "the most remarkable woman of her time".

Hrotsvitha's name appears variously in the forms Hrosvite, Hroswitha, Hroswithe, Rhotswitha, Roswit and is modernized as Roswitha but the proper pronunciation is Hrotsuit. The name is Old Saxon for "strong honour", which she rather adventurously re-interpreted to mean "a clarion voice".