Gerontius (disambiguation)
The name Gerontius , derived from the Greek word for old man , has the following meanings:
- Gerontius (praefectus Aegypti) , a governor of the Roman province of Egypt (361–362)
- Gerontius († 411), a Roman general from the early fifth century
- Gerontius of Moscow (1473–1489), a metropolitan and patriarch of Moscow
- Gerontius , a historical novel by the writer James Hamilton-Paterson from 1989 about an Amazon trip by the English composer Sir Edward William Elgar in 1923
- Gerontius of Cervia († 501), also Gerontius of Ficocle , an Italian bishop of Cervia in the 6th century, who was later canonized as a martyr
- The Dream of Gerontius (German Der Traum des Gerontius ), a nearly 900 line long poem published in 1865 by the English cardinal John Henry Newman
- The Dream of Gerontius (German Der Traum des Gerontius ), an oratorio by the English composer Sir Edward William Elgar,premiered in 1900, basedon the poem of the same name by the English cardinal John Henry Newman
- Gerontius Glacier , glacier on Alexander I Island in Antarctica
See also:
- Geraint , Welsh form of Gerontius
- Geront (Greek γερουσία), a council of elders in ancient Sparta , who consisted of 28 Gérontes (Greek γέρων for "old man")
- Geronticus , genus of ibis
- Gerontology (Greek γέρων géron "old man", λόγος lógos "teaching"), a term for the science of aging
