Alcuin
Alcuin of York (; ; 735 – 19 May 804) – also called
Ealhwine,
Alhwin, or
Alchoin – was a 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 architects of the
Carolingian Renaissance. Among his pupils were many of the dominant intellectuals of the Carolingian era.
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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