Rabānus Maurus
A distinguished mediæval scholar, born at Mainz about A.D. 776, and educated at
Fulda and at Tours under Alcuin. He taught with great success at Fulda, and in 847 was made
archbishop of Mainz. His epitome of the Latin grammar of
Priscianus (q.v.) was much used throughout the Middle Ages. See the Lives
by his pupils Rudolphus and Trithemius prefixed to his collected works in Migne's
Patrologiae Cursus Completus, vols. cvii.-cxii.; and the monographs by
Spengler
(1856), Köhler
(1870), and Richter
(1882). See
Liberales Artes.