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See also: R. de Gaienieres, increasing the but they hardly do See also:justice to the spirit of kindly benevolence which in less trying circumstances he was ever ready to display. He died at Winkel on the See also:Rhine, on the 4th of See also:February 856. He is frequently referred to as St Rabanus, but incorrectly. His voluminous See also:works, many of which remain unpublished, comprise commentaries on a considerable number of the books both of canonical and of apocryphal Scripture (See also:Genesis to See also:judges, See also:Ruth, See also:Kings, See also:Chronicles, See also:Judith, See also:Esther, See also:Canticles, See also:Proverbs, See also:Wisdom, See also:Ecclesiasticus, See also:Jeremiah, See also:Lamentations, See also:Ezekiel, See also:Maccabees, See also:Matthew, the Epistles of St See also:Paul, including See also:Hebrews); and various See also:treatises relating to doctrinal and See also:practical subjects, including more than one See also:series of Homilies. Perhaps the most important is that De institution clericorum, in three books, by which he did much to bring into prominence the views of See also:Augustine and See also:Gregory the See also:Great as to the training which was requisite for a right See also:discharge of the clerical See also:function; the most popular has been a comparatively worthless See also:tract De laudibus sanctae crucis. Among the others may be mentioned the De universe libri xxii., sive etymologiarum See also:opus, a See also:kind of See also:dictionary or See also:encyclopaedia, designed as a help towards the See also:historical and mystical See also:interpretation of Scripture, the De sacris ordinibus, the De disciplina ecclesiastica and the Martyrologium. All of them are characterized by erudition (he knew even some See also:Greek and See also:Hebrew) rather than by originality of thought. The poems are of singularly little See also:interest or value, except as including one See also:form of the " Vent Creator." In the See also:annals of See also:German See also:philology a See also:special interest attaches to the Glossaria Latino-Theodisca. A commentary, Super Porphyrium, printed by See also:Cousin in 1836 among the Ouvrages inedits d'See also:Abelard, and assigned both by that editor and by See also:Haureau to Hrabanus Maurus, is now generally believed to have been the work of a See also:disciple. The first nominally complete edition of the works of Hrabanus Maurus was that of Colvener (See also:Cologne, 6 vols. fol., 1627). The See also:Opera omnia form vols. cvii.-cxii. of See also:Migne's Patrologiae cm-See also:sus completus. The De universo is the subject of Compendium der Naturwissenschaften an der Schule zu See also:Fulda See also:im IX. Jahrhundert (See also:Berlin, 1880). Maurus is the subject of monographs by See also:Schwarz (De Rhabano Mauro primo Germaniae praeceptore, 1811), Kunstmann (Historische Monographie fiber Hrabanus Magnentius Maurus, 1841), Spengler (Leben See also:des heil. Rhabanus Maurus, 1856) and Kohler (Rhabanus Maurus u. See also:die Schule zu Fulda, 1870). Lives by his disciple Rudolphus and by Joannes See also:Trithemius are printed in the Cologne edition of the Opera. See also See also:Pertz, Monum. Germ. Hist. (i. and ii.) ; See also:Bahr, Gesch. d. romischen Literatur im Karoling. Zeitalter (184o), and Hauck's See also:article in the See also:Herzog-Hauck Realencyklopadie, ed. 3. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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