Tertullian

aka Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus

Country

Roman Africa, Roman Empire

Languages

Late Latin

Dates

c. 155 - c. 220

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Tertullian was a prolific early Christian author from Carthage in the Roman province of Africa. He was the first Christian author to produce an extensive corpus of Latin Christian literature and was an early Christian apologist and a polemicist against heresy, including Gnosticism.