Rabanus Maurus
Rabanus Maurus Magnentius or Rope Maur ( one finds also the orthographies “Hrabanus” and “Rhabanus” ), born towards 780 and dead the February 4th 856, is a monk Bénédictin, archbishop of Mainz (Germany) and a Théologie famous N. He is the author of the Encyclopédie Of the Nature of the things . He also wrote treaties of education and Grammaire and comments of the Bible. He is one of the most important professors and authors of the Carolingian Renaissance.
After studies with Fulda, it receives the Diaconat and leaves to Tours, to be taught by Alcuin there. It is Alcuin which, indicator its serious and its purity of manners gave him the nickname of Maurus , according to Saint Maur, preferred disciple of Benoît.
At the end of two years, it turns over to Fulda, where one gives him the load of the school, which gains in effectiveness and becomes one of the principal schools of Occident. Y are in particular formed Walahfrid Strabo, Loup of Tool bags and Otfried de Wissembourg. It is probably at this period that the grammar of Priscien, delivers very popular to the Moyen-âge, is compiled.
In 814, Rabanus is ordered priest. After a dissension with Ratgar, he is banished some time of Fulda. This Bannissement is the occasion of a Pèlerinage in Palestine, which informs its comments on Josué. To the election of a new abbot, Eigil, in 817, Rabanus turns over to Fulda. It becomes itself abbot into 822, and its abbatiat effective is completed into 842, when it is withdrawn with the abbey close to Saint-Pierre to devote itself fully to the prayer and the writing.
In 847, Rabanus is elected to succeed Otgar, archbishop of Mainz. It there repressed many ecclesiastical abuses, sought, hand in vain, to reconcile Louis Débonnaire and its sons, and chaired several synods. It deployed also a charity without terminals at the time of the famine of 850. He dies in Winkel, on the the Rhine, into 856.
Work of Rabanus, includes/understands comments on the canonical Writings or apocryphal book S; various treaties relating to the doctrines and practical subjects, of which several series of Homélie S.
Old editions
- Its Œuvres was published in Cologne, in 1627, in 3 folio volumes. They contain:
- of poetries (among which the Veni Creator , used in the Eighth Symphony of Gustav Mahler),
- of the comments on the Writing,
- of the treaties of the Universe , the Institution of the clerks and the ceremonies of the Church , the Seen of God , the ecclesiastical Calendar , the Invention of the languages ,
- a book of Etymologies ,
- a théotisque Latin Glossary , preserved handwritten at Vienna and Munich and published in 1727 in the Thesaurus of Schilter.
Wikipédia
- a waiter of Wikipédia bears its name.