Alcuin

Alcuin

writer
poet
Catholic priest
theologian
🇬🇧United Kingdom
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Alcuin of York, also called Ealhwine, Alhwin, or Alchoin, was an Anglo-Latin 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.

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Born in
York
Educated at
St Peter's School

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