[I 1] Thaumaturgus Lawyer and theologian, 3rd cent. AD
G. was born between AD 210 and 213, as the son of a wealthy pagan family in Neocaesarea/ Pontus (modern Niksar), probably under the name of Theodorus. In 232/3 (or 239), after a thorough elementary education G. actually wanted to study law in Berytus/Beirut but before this in Caesarea [2] (Palestine) got to know Origen who taught there and then studied under his supervision the ‘Christian sciences’ (initially dial…
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Markschies, Christoph (Berlin),
Savvidis, Kyriakos (Bochum),
Touwaide, Alain (Madrid),
Giaro, Tomasz (Frankfurt/Main),
Uthemann, Karl-Heinz (Amsterdam),
Fröhlich, Roland (Tübingen) and
Eigler, Ulrich (Zürich),
“Gregorius”, in:
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