Albinus
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Albinus might refer to:
- Albinus (philosopher)Albinus (philosopher)Albinus was a Platonist philosopher, who lived at Smyrna, and was teacher of Galen. A short tract by him, entitled Introduction to Plato's dialogues, has come down to us. From the title of one of the extant manuscripts we learn that Albinus was a pupil of Gaius the Platonist...
, a Greek philosopher - Albinus (cognomen)Albinus (cognomen)Albus or Albinus is a Latin surname, or cognomen, best known as the name of the main branch of the patrician gens Postumia. Albus, Albinus, the original form of the name, means "foreign", "someone of ofther jurisdiction" unlike, Album, Albus, which means "white"...
, a Roman family name, or cognomen - Albinus (abbot)Albinus (abbot)Albinus was an abbot of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury. He assisted Bede in the compilation of his Historia Ecclesiastica, and what we know concerning him is chiefly derived from the dedicatory epistle at the beginning of that work. Albinus was a pupil of Archbishop Theodore and his coadjutor...
, abbot of St. Peter's, Canterbury - Caecina Decius Albinus, Roman senator
- Caecina Decius Aginatius Albinus (urban prefect 414)Caecina Decius Aginatius Albinus (urban prefect 414)Caecina Decius Aginatius Albinus was an aristocrat of the Roman Empire. He was praefectus urbi in 414, succeeding his friend Rutilius Namatianus, and possibly again in 426.- Biography :...
, Roman senator - Caecina Decius Aginatius Albinus (consul 444)Caecina Decius Aginatius Albinus (consul 444)Flavius Caecina Decius Aginatius Albinus was an aristocrat of the Roman Empire; he was made consul for 444 as the junior partner of Emperor Theodosius II.- Life :...
, Roman senator - Albinus (consul 493)Albinus (consul 493)Albinus, or Caecina Decius Faustus Albinus, was a Roman politician during the reign of Theodoric the Great. He held the consulship with Flavius Eusebius in 493...
, Roman senator - AlcuinAlcuinAlcuin of York or Ealhwine, nicknamed Albinus or Flaccus was an English scholar, ecclesiastic, poet and teacher from York, Northumbria. He was born around 735 and became the student of Archbishop Ecgbert at York...
of York, a Northumbrian scholar, nicknamed Albinus - Bernhard Siegfried AlbinusBernhard Siegfried AlbinusBernhard Siegfried Albinus was a German-born Dutch anatomist.Albinus was born at Frankfurt , where his father, Bernhard Albinus , was professor of the practice of medicine...
, an anatomist - St. Albinus of AngersAlbinus of AngersSaint Albinus of Angers was a French abbot and bishop. Born to a noble Gallo-Roman family at Vannes, Brittany, St. Albinus was a monk and afterwards Abbot of Tintillac . His reputation spread during the twenty-five years in which he served as abbot. In 529, St...
(Aubin, Albin), bishop - Albinus of ProvenceAlbinus of ProvenceAlbinus or Albin was the Prefect of Provence from 573 until he was replaced by Dynamius in 575. He was a royal appointee of Sigebert I. After his prefecture was up, he was elected to replace Ferreolus as Bishop of Uzès in 581....
, Merovingian duke and bishop - Witta of BüraburgWitta of BüraburgSee Witta, son of Wecta for the mythological Jutish chieftain.Witta of Büraburg was one of the early Anglo-Saxon missionaries in Hesse and Thuringia in central Germany, disciple and companion of Saints Boniface and Lullus...
, also known as Albinus - Albin of BrechinAlbin of BrechinAlbin was a 13th-century prelate of the Kingdom of Scotland. A university graduate, Albin is known for his ecclesiastical career in the diocese of Brechin, centred on Angus in east-central Scotland....
, Scottish bishop - Albinus, cardinal-bishop of Albano from 1189 to 1206