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| - Rabanus Maurus Magnentius (c. 780 – 4 February 856), also known as Hrabanus or Rhabanus, was a Frankish Benedictine monk, the archbishop of Mainz in Germany and a theologian. He was the author of the encyclopaedia De rerum naturis (On the Nature of Things). He also wrote treatises on education and grammar and commentaries on the Bible. He was one of the most prominent teachers and writers of the Carolingian age, and was called "Praeceptor Germaniae," or "the teacher of Germany." On the Roman calendar (Martyrologium Romanum, 2001, pp. 126f.), he is celebrated on 4 February and listed as 'sanctus,' though the online version of the Catholic Encyclopedia of nearly a century earlier lists him as 'beatus.'
- Rabanus Maurus (780 - 4 February 856) was the Abbot of Fulda from 822 until 842, and the Archbishop of Mainz from 847 until 856. Rabanus was born in Mainz in 780 to a local family of mobility. In 788 he began his education in religion and science at the school of Fulda. After his schooling finished he became a scholar, and was promoted by Alcuin to the court of Charlemagne in Aachen. Rabanus became Alcuin's favorite pupil and was given the name "Maurus" by him. Rabanus followed Alcuin to the Abbey of St Martin in order to learn liturgy and law. He returned to Fulda in 801 where he was made a deacon and the headmaster of the monastery school. During his time as headmaster Rabanus wrote several important works, such as the De Is Laudibus Crucis in 814 and a guide to the training of clergy in
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| - Rabanus Maurus Magnentius (c. 780 – 4 February 856), also known as Hrabanus or Rhabanus, was a Frankish Benedictine monk, the archbishop of Mainz in Germany and a theologian. He was the author of the encyclopaedia De rerum naturis (On the Nature of Things). He also wrote treatises on education and grammar and commentaries on the Bible. He was one of the most prominent teachers and writers of the Carolingian age, and was called "Praeceptor Germaniae," or "the teacher of Germany." On the Roman calendar (Martyrologium Romanum, 2001, pp. 126f.), he is celebrated on 4 February and listed as 'sanctus,' though the online version of the Catholic Encyclopedia of nearly a century earlier lists him as 'beatus.' Rabanus was born of noble parents in Mainz. The date of his birth is uncertain, but in 801 he received a deacon's order at Fulda in Hesse, where he had been sent to school. In the following year, at the insistence of Ratgar, his abbot, he went together with Haimon (later of Halberstadt) to complete his studies at Tours. He studied there under Alcuin, who in recognition of his diligence and purity gave him the surname of Maurus, after the favourite disciple of Benedict, Saint Maurus. Returning to Fulda two years later, he was entrusted with the principal charge of the school, which under his direction became one of the most preeminent centers of scholarship and book production in Europe, and sent forth such pupils as Walafrid Strabo, Servatus Lupus of Ferrières, and Otfrid of Weissenburg. At this period he probably compiled his excerpt from the grammar of Priscian, a popular text book during the Middle Ages. In 814 Rabanus was ordained a priest. Shortly afterwards, apparently on account of disagreement with Ratgar, he was compelled to withdraw for a time from Fulda. This banishment is understood to have occasioned the pilgrimage to Palestine to which he alludes in his commentary on Joshua. He returned to Fulda on the election of a new abbot (Eigil) in 817, upon whose death in 822 he himself became abbot. He was efficient and successful in this role until 842, when, in order to secure greater leisure for literature and for devotion, he resigned and retired to the neighbouring cloister of St Petersberg. In 847, Rabanus was again constrained to enter public life by his election to succeed Otgar in the archbishopric of Mainz. He died at Winkel on the Rhine in 856.
- Rabanus Maurus (780 - 4 February 856) was the Abbot of Fulda from 822 until 842, and the Archbishop of Mainz from 847 until 856. Rabanus was born in Mainz in 780 to a local family of mobility. In 788 he began his education in religion and science at the school of Fulda. After his schooling finished he became a scholar, and was promoted by Alcuin to the court of Charlemagne in Aachen. Rabanus became Alcuin's favorite pupil and was given the name "Maurus" by him. Rabanus followed Alcuin to the Abbey of St Martin in order to learn liturgy and law. He returned to Fulda in 801 where he was made a deacon and the headmaster of the monastery school. During his time as headmaster Rabanus wrote several important works, such as the De Is Laudibus Crucis in 814 and a guide to the training of clergy in 819. In 15 June 822 Rabanus became the abbot of Fulda. He increased the size of the library and moved the monastery school. He founded thirty churches in the rural regions around the abbey. When he was pulled into the disputes of Louis the Pious and his sons, Rabanus retired in 842 to the Abbey of Peterburg to live a private life. In 847, King Louis the German removed Rabanus from retirement and appointed him the Archbishop of Mainz. Among his first acts was to call a synod of all suffragan bishops, choir bishops and the Abbot of St Alban over the stabilisation of the church and the establishment of discipline. The confusing lectures were replaced with more easily understandable ones. Rabanus died in Winkel in the Rheingau in 856 and was buried in the Abbey of St Alban. In 1515 Albert III of Brandenburg moved his remains to Aschaffenburg.
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