List of historians of the Christian Orient

The history of the Christian Orient has been passed on by several, mostly Christian, chroniclers and historians. Their works still serve as historical sources today. In the chronicles the history of the church is described but also world history. Some chroniclers were initially lawyers ( Socrates Scholasticus , Hermeias Sozomenos ), some of them monks ( Johannes bar Penkaje , Matthias von Edessa , Rufinus von Aquileia ) or secretaries of bishops and patriarchs, or some were bishops themselves ( Theodoret , Wilhelm von Tire ).

List of historians

Orient

• Sextus Iulius Africanus (around 160; † around 240) founder of Christian chronography
• Eusebius of Caesarea (* 260–264; † 337–340), bishop and church historian
• Theodoret (* 393; † around 460) bishop, theologian and church historian.
• Rufinus of Aquileia (* approx. 345; † 411/412) monk, historian and theologian.
• Joshua Stylites (6th century) traditional name of the author of a chronicle (pseudo-Joshua).
• Johannes bar Penkaje (7th century) monk of the East Syrian Church of the East.
• Daniel bar Maryam (7th century) East Syrian church historian
• al-Masudi, (8th century) historian on Hunayn
• Jakob von Edessa († 708) famous Syrian scholar, theologian and writer.
• Theophilos von Edessa (* 695; † 785) Syrian scholar and chronicler
• Pseudo-Dionysius of Tell Mahre (9th century) Syrian chronicler
• Elias of Nisibis (10th century) Metropolitan of the East Syrian Church of the East and writer
• Matthias von Edessa Mönch describes his chronicle for the years 952–1136
• William of Tire (12th century) Archbishop and historian of the Crusades
• Mari ibn Sulaiman (12th century) East Syrian historian
• Amr ibn Matta (14th century) historian
• Michael Syrus (1166–1199, Mika'el I), "the Syrian" or "the great", Syrian Orthodox patriarch and church historian of the Middle Ages
• Chronicle of Edessa
• Chronicle of Zuqnin
• Chronicle of Arbela

Byzantium

• Ammianus Marcellinus (* around 330 in Antioch / Syria, † around 395) Roman historian, late antique historian, non-Christian
• Socrates Scholastikos (* approx. 380; † around 440) lawyer and church historian
• Sozomenos († around 450) church historian from late antiquity.
• Johannes Malalas (* 490; † 570) Eastern Roman historian
• Prokopios of Caesarea (* around 500, † around 562) late antique historian
• John of Ephesus (* approx. 507; † 587) church historian
• Euagrios Scholastikos (Greek Euagrios Scholastikos) (* around 535, † 600) late antique church historian
• Agathias (nickname Scholastikos; * around 536 in Myrina in Asia Minor; † around 582 in Constantinople) was an Eastern Roman historian and poet.
• Johannes Moschos around * 540 or 550 + 620 wandering monk, writer, historian
• Theophylact Simokattes historian on the campaigns of Emperor Maurikios (582–602)
• John of Antioch , late antique historian who wrote in the 7th century AD.
• Georgios Synkellos , († 810) Synkellos , historian
• Theophanes , (* 760; † 817/8) monk and historian
• Theophanes Continuatus Collection of chronicles (from 813 to 961), continuation of the Chronicle of Theophanes
• Joseph Genesios historian, first half of the 10th century
• Johannes Skylitzes (11th century) Byzantine historian
• Georgios Kedrenos (Latinized Georgius Cedrenus) (11th / 12th century) Byzantine historian
• Johannes Zonaras (11th century) Byzantine historian, canonist and lawyer
• Chronicon Paschale around 630, Christian world chronicle from 6000 years BC to 629 AD.
• Georgios Pachymeres (* 1242; † 1310) historian, priest and writer

Caucasia

• Moses von Choren , (5th century) Armenian historian
• Agathangelos , (around 491) pseudonym of the author of a novel-like story of the Armenian Christianization
• Sebeos (7th century) Armenian bishop and historian
• Smbat Sparapet (1208–1276) was a medieval Armenian chronicler
• Hethum of Korykos (* 1230/45; † not before 1309), Armenian historian
• Eremya Çelebi Kömürciyan (1637–1695 Constantinople) Armenian poet, historian

Modern times

• Kamal Salibi (1929–2011) Lebanese historian, expert on Arabic history

literature

• Gregorius Barhebraeus: Chronicon ecclesiasticum, ed. v. Johann Baptist Abbeloos u. Thomas Joseph Lamy, Leuven 1872
• Fragments of Syrian and Arab Historians (Elias of Nisibis), ed. v. Friedrich Baethgen, Leipzig 1884
• Chronique de Michel le Syria, ed. v. J.-B. Chabot, Vol. 3, Paris 1905, 130-133