Alcuin
737 – 804
English

Thinker, writer, and poet. He helped make Charlemagne's court a center of thought and culture as well as of power.

Contemporaries
800–870al-Kindi
766–809Harun al-Raschid
800–850al-Khwarizmi
fl. c. 700–c. 750Sankara
?–778Roland
700–762Li Po
680–741Leo III
772–846Bo Juyi
752–803Irene
712–770Du Fu
742–814Charlemagne
787–885Albumazar