Rudolf of Fulda was a monk of the Benedictine monastery of Fulda

Fulda

Fulda is a city in Hesse, Germany; it is located on the river Fulda and is the administrative seat of the Fulda district .- Early Middle Ages :...

, writer, theologian and teacher. He was a pupil of Rhabanus Maurus and befriended Louis the Pious

Louis the Pious

Louis the Pious , also called the Fair, and the Debonaire, was the King of Aquitaine from 781. He was also King of the Franks and co-Emperor with his father, Charlemagne, from 813...

, king of the Franks

Franks

The Franks were a confederation of Germanic tribes first attested in the third century AD as living north and east of the Lower Rhine River. From the third to fifth centuries some Franks raided Roman territory while other Franks joined the Roman troops in Gaul. Only the Salian Franks formed a...

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Work

Rudolf is considered to be on of the most important writers of his time and has written several works:

• Annales Fuldenses
  Annales Fuldenses
  The Annales Fuldenses or Annals of Fulda are East Frankish chronicles that cover independently the period from the last years of Louis the Pious to shortly after the end of effective Carolingian rule in East Francia with the accession of the child-king, Louis III, in 900...
  
  (The Annals of Fulda) were started by Einhard
  Einhard
  Einhard was a Frankish scholar and courtier. Einhard was a dedicated servant of Charlemagne and his son Louis the Pious; his main work is a biography of Charlemagne, the Vita Karoli Magni, "one of the most precious literary bequests of the early Middle Ages."-Public life:Einhard was from the eastern...
  
   and continued by Rudolf (838–863).
• Vita Leobae Abbatissae Biscofesheimensis', a biography of Saint Leoba
  Leoba
  Leoba was an Anglo-Saxon nun who was part of Boniface's mission to the Germans, and a saint.- Early life :...
  
   of Tauberbischofsheim
  Tauberbischofsheim
  Tauberbischofsheim is a German town in the north-east of Baden-Württemberg on the river Tauber with a population of about 13,000. It is the capital of the Main-Tauber district....
  
   (most likely written in 836). This is the first known Saxon biography of a woman.
• Miracula sanctorum in Fuldenses ecclesias translatorum (843–847)
• Translatio sancti Alexandri Wildeshusam anno 851 covers the conversion of the Saxons
  Saxons
  The Saxons were a confederation of Germanic tribes originating on the North German plain. The Saxons earliest known area of settlement is Northern Albingia, an area approximately that of modern Holstein...
  
   to Christianity
  Christianity
  Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in canonical gospels and other New Testament writings...
  
   and was begun in 863 at the request of Waltbraht, a grandson of Widukin. When Rudolf died in 865, the work was completed by Meginhart.
• A commentary on the gospel of John
  Gospel of John
  The Gospel According to John , commonly referred to as the Gospel of John or simply John, and often referred to in New Testament scholarship as the Fourth Gospel, is an account of the public ministry of Jesus...
  
  , which is presumed to have been lost.

Life

His year of birth is unknown but it is believed that he was born before 800. In 821 he became subdeacon

Subdeacon

-Subdeacons in the Orthodox Church:A subdeacon or hypodeacon is the highest of the minor orders of clergy in the Orthodox Church. This order is higher than the reader and lower than the deacon.-Canonical Discipline:...

of the monastery and in 822 he succeeded Rhabanus Maurus as the head of the monastery school.