Rabanus Maurus Magnentius (c. 780 – 4 February 856), also known as Hrabanus or Rhabanus, is a Frankish Benedictine monk, the archbishop of Mainz in Germany and a theologian.

He is the author of the encyclopaedia De rerum naturis (On the Nature of Things).

He also writes treatises on education and grammar and commentaries on the Bible.

He is one of the most prominent teachers and writers of the Carolingian age, and is called "Praeceptor Germaniae," or "the teacher of Germany."

On the Roman calendar (Martyrologium Romanum, 2001, pp.

126f.

), he is celebrated on 4 February and listed as 'sanctus,' though the online version of the Catholic Encyclopedia of nearly a century earlier lists him as 'beatus.'