Alcuin, Saint
Alcuin, Saint
Alrinus; Flaccus
(c.735 -804 ), scholar, educator, and theologian, born near York, England ; died Tours, France . He succeeded Aelbert, in 767 , as head of the cathedral school of York and established its library. In 782 he was called by Charlemagne to organize education in his palace-school at Aix-la-Chapelle . Retiring in 796 to the Abbey of Saint Martin of Tours, he founded a school there whose pupils became distinguished teachers. Among his works are treatises on grammar, rhetoric, dialectic, and astronomy ; dogmatic writings; and poems. He revised the text of the Vulgate, established the Roman Rite, and compiled a Missal which was generally adopted.