Alcuin

Also known as Flaccus Albinus, Alcuinus, Alhwin, Ealhwine, Flaccus Albinus Alcuinus, Alchuine, Alcuin of York

Alcuin of York (; ; 735 – 19 May 804), also called Ealhwine, Alhwin, or Alchoin, was an Anglo-Latin scholar, clergyman, poet, and teacher from York, Northumbria. He was born around 735 and became the student of Archbishop Ecgbert at York. At the invitation of Charlemagne, he became a leading scholar and teacher at the Carolingian court, where he remained a figure in the 780s and 790s. Before that, he was also a court chancellor in Aachen. "The most learned man anywhere to be found", according to Einhard's Life of Charlemagne (–833), he is considered among the most important intellectual archit

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Alcuin of York (735–804) was an Anglo-Latin scholar and teacher who became one of the most influential intellectual figures of his time, serving at the court of Charlemagne in the late 8th century. He is remembered as a key architect of the Carolingian Renaissance, the period of scholarly and cultural revival that characterized Charlemagne's reign.

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Academic.name: Alcuin of York
Academic.image: Raban-Maur Alcuin Otgar.jpg
Academic.occupation: Deacon of the Catholic Church
Academic.birth_place: York, Northumbria
Academic.death_place: Tours, Francia
Academic.caption: A Carolingian manuscript, . Rabanus Maurus (left), with Alcuin (middle), dedicating his work to Archbishop Otgar of Mainz (right)
Academic.death_date: 19 May 804 (aged around 69)
Academic.influences: Ecgbert of York
Saint.honorific_prefix: Saint
Saint.name: Alcuin of York
Saint.feast_day: 20 May
Saint.venerated_in: Anglicanism
Saint.image: File:Saint Alcuin F-001803-20120809.jpg
Saint.imagesize: 100px
Saint.caption: Painting subtitled (), Tyrol, early 16th century

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Instance of: human
Gender: male
Citizenship: Kingdom of Northumbria
Place of birth: York
Place of death: Tours
Occupation: Catholic priest
Educated at: St Peter's School
Languages spoken: Latin
Religion: Catholic Church
Image: Raban-Maur Alcuin Otgar.jpg
Religious order: Benedictines

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Commons category: Alcuin
date of birth: 0740-00-00
date of death: 0804-01-01
name in native language: Ealhwine
canonization status: blessed
sponsor: Charlemagne
student: Hilduin
feast day: May 19
writing language: medieval Latin
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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

Biography
Background
York
Charlemagne
Return to Northumbria and back to Francia
Tours and death
Scholarly and literary output
Mathematician
Theologian
Liturgist
Literary influence
Perceived homoeroticism
Legacy
Selected works
Poetry
Letters
Didactic works
Theology
Hagiography
See also
Notes and references
Notes
References
Sources
External links

Alcuin wrote many theological and dogmatic treatises, as well as a few grammatical works and a number of poems. In 796, he was made abbot of Marmoutier Abbey, in Tours, where he worked on perfecting the Carolingian minuscule script. He remained there until his death.

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