Victor of Tunnuna

Victor of Tunnuna ( † ca 570 ) was a late antique bishop and chronicler.

About Victor's life is very little known. He acted ( at least since 554) as Bishop of Tunnuna in the Africa province since 533/34 again ( Eastern ) Roman, but the exact location of the city disputed. 555 he was summoned by Emperor Justinian to Alexandria and there eventually imprisoned. The reason was Victor's rejection of Justinian's position in the so-called Three Chapters controversy in relation to which the writings of the authors Ibas of Edessa, Theodoret was condemned by Kyrrhos and Theodore of Mopsuestia. 564/65, he was taken to Constantinople and Opel, when he still maintained his position, locked in a monastery, where he probably died a few years later.

Victor wrote in his exile, a Latin chronicle, which covers the period 444-567. Probably the text was preceded by a review of the Chronicle of Prosper Tiro of Aquitaine, but this part is lost. It focuses on the events in North Africa and the history of the Church, while the secular history largely ( but not completely ) is omitted. Justinian is depicted while understandably rather negative; Victor writes, among other things, Justinian's uncle and predecessor, Justin I 'm his nephew, 525 only reluctantly ( invitus ) and at the insistence of the other raised to Caesar ( Chron ad ann. 525 ). As a major source of Western and Eastern Roman Fasti ministered to him. The Chronicle was continued by John of Biclaro to 590.

The Victor sometimes attributed treatise de paenitentia ( "On Repentance " ) likely originated by Victor von Cartenna.

Editions and translations

• Victoris Tonnennensis Episcopi Chronica. In: Theodor Mommsen (ed.): Auctores antiquissimi 11: Chronica minora SAEC. IV V VI. VII (II). Berlin 1894 ( Monumenta Historica Germaniae, digitized )
• Antonio Placanica: Vittore because Tunnuna. Florence 1997 ( with Italian translation ).