Victor of Tunnuna
Victor von Tunnuna ( Victor Tunnunensis ; † approx. 570) was a late antique bishop and chronicler.
Live and act
Very little is known about Victor's life. He acted (since 554 at the latest) as Bishop of Tunnuna in the (east) Roman province of Africa , which has been in the (east) Roman province again since 533/34 , but the exact location of the city is disputed. In 555 he was summoned to Alexandria by Emperor Justinian and eventually imprisoned there. The reason was Victor's rejection of Justinian's position in the so-called three - chapter dispute , in connection with which the writings of the authors Ibas of Edessa , Theodoret of Kyrrhos and Theodore of Mopsuestia were condemned. 564/65 he was brought to Constantinople and, when he continued to insist on his position, locked in a monastery, where he died a few years later.
During his time in exile, Victor wrote a Latin chronicle covering the period from 444 to 567. The text was probably preceded by a revision of the Chronicle of Prosper Tiro of Aquitaine , but this part has been lost. The focus is on the events in North Africa and the history of the Church, while the secular history is largely (but not completely) left out. Justinian is portrayed rather negatively; Victor writes, among other things, that Justinian's uncle and predecessor Justin I only reluctantly ( invitus ) and at the urging of others elevated his nephew to Caesar in 525 (Chron. ad ann. 525). West and East Roman Fasti served him as a main source . The chronicle was continued by Johannes von Biclaro until 590.
The tract de paenitentia ("On Penance"), sometimes attributed to Victor, is very likely written by Victor von Cartenna .
The chronicle first appeared in print in 1600 in Ingolstadt by Heinrich Canisius († 1610), nephew of St. Petrus Canisius .
Editions and translations
- Victoris Tonnensis Episcopi Chronica . In: Theodor Mommsen (Ed.): Auctores antiquissimi 11: Chronica minora saec. IV. V. VI. VII. (II). Berlin 1894 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )
- Antonio Placanica: Vittore da Tunnuna . Florence 1997 (with Italian translation).
- Victoris Tunnunensis Chronicon cum reliquiis ex Consularibus Caesaraugustanis et Iohannis Biclarensis Chronicon. Edidit Carmen Cardelle de Hartmann. Commentaria historica ad Consularia Caesaraugustana et ad Iohannis Biclarensis Chronicon edidit Roger Collins, CCSL 174 a, Turnhout 2001.
- Arians and Vandals of the 4th – 6th Centuries: Annotated translations of the historical works by Bishops Victor of Vita (Historia Persecutionis Africanae Provinciae) and Victor oftonsa (Chronicon) and of the religious works by Bishop Victor of Cartenna (De Paenitentia) and Saints Ambrose (De Fide Orthodoxa contra Arianos), and Athanasius (Expositio Fidei). Edited by John R. C. Martin. Cambridge 2008.
literature
- Brian Croke: Count Marcellinus and his Chronicle . University Press, Oxford 2001 (with general comments on contemporary chronicles).
- Martin Schanz , Carl Hosius , Gustav Krüger: History of Roman literature . Vol. 4.2. Beck, Munich 1920, p. 112f.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Victor of Tunnuna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Victor Tunnunensis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | late antique bishop and chronicler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th century or 6th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 570 |