Auxentius of Dorostorum
Dorostorum ( dorosteru ) on the Tabula Peutingeriana in the 4th century AD.
Auxentius was Bishop of Durostorum in Lower Moesia . He was a student and therefore contemporary of the Gothic missionary bishop Wulfila , so he lived in the second half of the 4th century. Nothing more is known about his origin and his life.
Like his teacher, Auxentius belonged to the 'homeeric' direction of an Origenistic Christianity, the so-called 'Origenistic middle group', which until a few decades ago was wrongly assigned to Arianism . In 383 he wrote a Vita Wulfilas (Epistola de fide, vita et obitu Wulfilae) , which was not least a justification for Arianism. Auxentius' writing has only come down to us in a handwritten source in poor condition. It was discovered in a Paris codex in 1840.
literature
- Adolf Jülicher : Auxentius 8 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 2, Stuttgart 1896, Col. 2616.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Auxentius. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 305.
- Roger Gryson (Ed.): Scripta Arriana Latina . Pars 1: Collectio Veronensis. Scholia in concilium Aquileiense. Fragmenta in Lucam rescripta. Fragmenta theologica rescripta . Turnhout 1982 (= Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina 87), pp. 160-166.
- Alexios G. Savvides, Benjamin Hendrickx (Eds.): Encyclopaedic Prosopographical Lexicon of Byzantine History and Civilization . Vol. 1: Aaron - Azarethes . Brepols Publishers, Turnhout 2007, ISBN 978-2-503-52303-3 , p. 462.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Auxentius of Dorostorum |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Auxentius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bishop of Durostorum in Lower Moesia |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th century or 5th century |