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Rabanus Maurus Magnentius (rəbā`nəs mô`rəs măgnĕn`shəs), c.780–856, German scholar and theologian. His name appears also as Hrabanus and Rhabanus. A student under Alcuin Alcuin (ăl`kwĭn) or Albinus
..... Click the link for more information. , he was later abbot of Fulda (822–42); his zeal for learning and his excellent administration made the school and library at Fulda an outstanding source of intellectual light. He retired from Fulda but in 847 was made bishop of Mainz. His immense stock of knowledge was encyclopedic rather than original. Among his works are De universo, an encyclopedic dictionary, and De institutione clericorum, a course of study for clerics. Rabanus had an eminent role in spreading the Carolingian revival. Gottschalk Gottschalk or Gottschalck (both: gôt`shälk), d. c.868, German theologian; son of the count of Saxony.
..... Click the link for more information. and the poet Walafrid Strabo Walafrid Strabo (Walafrid the Squinter), c.809–849, German scholar, b. Swabia. Educated at the abbey of Reichenau, he wrote, at 18, a Latin verse account of a journey to the hereafter, Visio Wettini. In 842 he returned to Reichenau as abbot.
..... Click the link for more information. were his students.