Hrabanus Maurus

Timeline

1. c. 788–802Fulda Monastery · FuldaHrabanus entered Fulda Monastery in childhood, was personally taught by Alcuin, and systematically studied grammar, rhetoric, theology and classical texts, becoming an important transmitter of Carolingian court scholarship.
2. 822–842Fulda Monastery · FuldaIn 822 Hrabanus became abbot of Fulda, directing the monastery school and writing numerous biblical commentaries, moral exhortations and encyclopedic works, advancing the institutionalization of church education and scholarship in the Frankish realm.
3. 847–856Mainz · MainzIn 847 Hrabanus was appointed Archbishop of Mainz, taking part in imperial church affairs and liturgical reform; in old age he retired to Vincke but continued writing, dying there in 856.