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Alcuin
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Alcuin

Scholar and poet

Born c. AD 740 · died 19 May AD 804
Also known as Flaccus Albinus, Alcuinus, Alhwin

Who was alive at the same time as Alcuin?

  1. John of Damascus, c. AD 675 – AD 749
  2. Abu Hanifa, AD 699 – c. AD 768
  3. Pope Adrian I, AD 700 – AD 795
  4. Pope Paul I, AD 700 – AD 767
  5. Li Bai, AD 701 – AD 762
  6. Du Fu, AD 712 – AD 770
  7. Pepin the Short, c. AD 716 – AD 768
  8. Pope Stephen III, c. AD 720 – AD 772
  9. Jabir ibn Hayyan, AD 721 – AD 815
  10. Alcuin, c. AD 740 – AD 804
  11. Charlemagne, c. AD 744 – AD 814
  12. Pope Leo III, AD 750 – c. AD 816
  13. Abu Nuwas, c. AD 759 – AD 814
  14. Harun al-Rashid, AD 766 – AD 809
  15. Al-Shafi'i, AD 767 – AD 820
  16. Pope Paschal I, c. AD 775 – AD 824
  17. Al-Khwarizmi, c. AD 780 – c. AD 850
  18. Louis the Pious, AD 778 – AD 840
  19. Ahmad ibn Hanbal, AD 780 – AD 855
  20. Adi Shankara, c. AD 788 – c. AD 821
  21. Pope Leo IV, c. AD 790 – AD 855
  22. Pope Adrian II, AD 792 – AD 872
  23. Pope Gregory IV, c. AD 795 – AD 844
  24. Al-Kindi, c. AD 801 – c. AD 872

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When Alcuin died, Jabir ibn Hayyan was 82 or 83, Harun al-Rashid was 38, Pope Leo III was 53 or 54, Louis the Pious was 25 or 26 and Al-Shafi'i was 36.

Born during Alcuin’s lifetime: Al-Khwarizmi, Abu Nuwas, Harun al-Rashid, Adi Shankara, Pope Leo III, Louis the Pious, Al-Kindi and Pope Gregory IV.

Not quite contemporaries: Bede died about 3 years before Alcuin was born, Pope Gregory II died about 7 years before Alcuin was born, Muhammad al-Bukhari was born about 6 years after Alcuin died and Pope John VIII was born about 14 years after Alcuin died.

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Where Alcuin’s contemporaries were born

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The 84 best-known contemporaries

84 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Alcuin. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in AD 774.

  1. Li Bai AD 701 – AD 762
  2. Charlemagne c. AD 744 – AD 814
  3. Al-Khwarizmi c. AD 780 – c. AD 850
  4. Abu Nuwas c. AD 759 – AD 814
  5. Du Fu AD 712 – AD 770
  6. Jabir ibn Hayyan AD 721 – AD 815
  7. Harun al-Rashid AD 766 – AD 809
  8. Adi Shankara c. AD 788 – c. AD 821
  9. Abu Hanifa AD 699 – c. AD 768
  10. Pope Leo III AD 750 – c. AD 816
  11. Louis the Pious AD 778 – AD 840
  12. Al-Kindi c. AD 801 – c. AD 872
  13. Pope Adrian I AD 700 – AD 795
  14. Pepin the Short c. AD 716 – AD 768
  15. Pope Gregory IV c. AD 795 – AD 844
  16. Pope Paul I AD 700 – AD 767
  17. John of Damascus c. AD 675 – AD 749
  18. Al-Shafi'i AD 767 – AD 820
  19. Ahmad ibn Hanbal AD 780 – AD 855
  20. Pope Adrian II AD 792 – AD 872
  21. Pope Leo IV c. AD 790 – AD 855
  22. Pope Paschal I c. AD 775 – AD 824
  23. Pope Stephen III c. AD 720 – AD 772
  24. Pope Eugene II c. AD 780 – AD 827
  25. Pope Zachary AD 679 – AD 752
  26. Pope Stephen II c. AD 714 – AD 757
  27. Ja'far al-Sadiq c. AD 701 – c. AD 765
  28. Pope Stephen IV c. AD 770 – AD 817
  29. Pope Sergius II c. AD 790 – AD 847
  30. Pope Valentine c. AD 780 – AD 827
  31. Malik ibn Anas c. AD 711 – AD 795
  32. Lothair I AD 795 – AD 855
  33. Irene of Athens c. AD 752 – AD 803
  34. Rabia Basri 710s – AD 801
  35. Abd al-Rahman I AD 731 – AD 788
  36. Roland AD 737 – AD 778
  37. Al-Ma'mun c. AD 786 – c. AD 833
  38. Padmasambhava AD 717 – AD 762
  39. Constantine V AD 718 – AD 775
  40. Nikephoros I c. AD 750 – AD 811
  41. Bai Juyi AD 772 – AD 846
  42. Al-Jahiz AD 775 – c. AD 869
  43. Ecgberht, King of Wessex AD 771 – AD 839
  44. Han Yu AD 768 – AD 824
  45. Ali al-Rida AD 770 – AD 818
  46. Wang Wei AD 699 – c. AD 760
  47. Al-Mansur AD 713 – AD 775
  48. Carloman I AD 751 – AD 771
  49. Michael I Rangabe c. AD 770 – AD 844
  50. Leo V the Armenian AD 775 – AD 820
  51. Abu Muslim c. AD 719 – AD 755
  52. Paul the Deacon c. AD 720 – c. AD 799
  53. Leo IV the Khazar AD 750 – AD 780
  54. Constantine VI AD 771 – c. AD 798
  55. Saint Boniface c. AD 675 – AD 754
  56. Al-Saffah AD 722 – AD 754
  57. Michael II AD 770 – AD 829
  58. Staurakios AD 775 – AD 812
  59. Abd ar-Rahman II AD 792 – AD 852
  60. Musa al-Kazim AD 745 – c. AD 799
  61. Krum AD 755 – AD 814
  62. Einhard c. AD 774 – AD 840
  63. Kūkai AD 774 – AD 835
  64. Al-Mu'tasim AD 796 – AD 842
  65. Marwan II AD 688 – AD 750
  66. Al-Walid II 700s – AD 744
  67. Ibn Ishaq AD 704 – AD 768
  68. Al-Mahdi AD 744 – AD 785
  69. Emperor Xuanzong of Tang c. AD 684 – c. AD 765
  70. Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik AD 691 – AD 743
  71. Theophanes the Confessor AD 759 – AD 817
  72. Rabanus Maurus c. AD 783 – AD 856
  73. Babak Khorramdin AD 798 – AD 838
  74. Yazid III AD 701 – AD 744
  75. Desiderius c. AD 710 – c. AD 786
  76. Al-Hadi c. AD 763 – AD 786
  77. Pepin of Italy AD 777 – AD 810
  78. Al-Amin AD 787 – AD 813
  79. Liutprand, King of the Lombards c. 680s – AD 744
  80. Shantideva c. AD 685 – c. AD 763
  81. Emperor Kanmu AD 737 – AD 806
  82. Hisham I of Córdoba AD 757 – AD 796
  83. Carloman c. AD 710 – AD 754
  84. Alfonso II of Asturias AD 759 – AD 842