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Prosper of Aquitaine (Latin: Prosper Aquitanus; c. 390 – c. 455 AD), also called Prosper Tiro, [3] was a Christian writer and disciple of Augustine of Hippo, and the first continuator of Jerome's Universal Chronicle.
Overview. St Prosper of Aquitaine. (c. 390—455) Quick Reference. (c. 390– c. 463), theologian. Prosper Tiro of Aquitania was living at Marseilles when the Semipelagian controversy broke out (426). He wrote to St Augustine, and in 431, after Augustine's death, he went to Rome to secure Celestine I's support for Augustinian teaching.
years after Prosper concluded his historical account. Few concrete details survive about Prosper’s early life, but it would seem that he was born around 390 in the region of Aquitaine to a family of Gallo-Roman aristocratic background. 1
The brief summary of literature since 1901, when L. Valentin published his lengthy and influential study of Prosper, is an elegant bibliographical essay that traces the developments in the study of the text and its author.
- Mark Humphries
- 2007
Saint Prosper of Aquitaine ; feast day July 7) was an early Christian polemicist famous for his defense of Augustine of Hippo and his doctrine on grace, predestination, and free will, which became a norm for the teachings of the Roman Catholic church.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
This chapter explores the relationship between Prosper of Aquitaine and Pope Leo I. It explains that Prosper's influential historical text Chronicle was used by several writers such as Victorious of Aquitaine, Cassiodorus, and Liberatus of Carthage, in their own histrographic works.
Prosper of Aquitaine was Augustine's most important early interpreter, defender, and promoter. He was among the earliest scholars to distinguish Augustine by gathering together brief statements (sententiae) from the vast ocean of Augustine's writings.
