NPNF2-02. Socrates and Sozomenus Ecclesiastical Histories

Introduction.

I. Sources and Literature.¹

U. Chevalier in his Repertoire des sources historiques du Moyen Age gives the following list of authorities on Socrates Scholasticus.

Baronius: Ann*. [1593] 439, 39. Cf. Pagi, Crit. [1689] 9, 11, 427, 15–6.

Bellarmin Labbé: S. E. [1728] 164.

Brunet: Manuel* [1864] V. 425.

Cave:* S. E. [1741] I. 427.

Ceillier: Hist. Aut. Eccl. [1747] XIII. p. 669–88. (2 a* VIII. 514–25.)

Darling: Cyclopædia Bibliographica; Authors.*

Du Pin: Bibl. Aut Eccl.* [1702] III. ii. 183.

Ebed-Jesu: Cat. Scr. Eccl 29. (Assemani: Bibl. Orient. III. 141.)

Fabricius: Bibl. Græc. [1714] VI. 117–21. (2 a* VII. 423–7.)

Graesse: Trésor* [1865] VI. 1, 429.

Hoffmann: Lex. Bibl. Gr. [1836] III. 625–6.

Holzhausen: Commentatio de fontibus quibus Socrates, Sozomenus ac Theodoretus usi sunt, &c. Götting. 1825.

Jöcher.

Nouvelle Biog. Gen.:* [1868] XLIV. 127–8.

Nolte:² Tübing. Quartalschrift [1860] 518; [1861] 417–51.

Patrologia Græca* (Migné) LXVII. 9–26.

Sigebert: Gembl. S. E. 10.

Tillemont:³ Hist. des Emp. [1738] VI. 119–22.

Trithemius: Scr. Eccl. 137.

Vossius: Hist. Græca [1651] 259.

Walford:⁴ in Bohn’s Eccl. Libr. VI. 1853.

To these there should be added important notices of Socrates or his Ecclesiastical History as follows:

F. C Baur: Die Epochen der Kirchlichen Geschichtschreibung Tübing. 1852, p. 7–32.

J. G. Dowling: An Introduction to the Critical Study of Ecclesiastical History.

Ad. Harnack: In Herzog-Plitt’s Real Enkyclop. vol. 14, Sokrates und Sozomenos and in Encyclop. Britannica, Socrates.

K. O. Müller: History of Greek Literature: English translation and continuation by Donaldson, Vol. III.

Rössler: Bibliothek der Kirchenväter.

Jeep: Quellenuntersuchungen zu der griech. Kirchenhistorikern. Leipsic, 1884.

Sarrazin: De Theodoro Lectore, Theophanis Fonte præcipuo, 1881.

Stäudlin: Gesch. und Literatur der Kirchen-geschichte, 1827.

Overbeck: Theol. Liter.-Zeitung, 1879. No. 20.

Also articles on Socrates in Smith’s Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (by John Calrow Means) and Smith & Wace: Dictionary of Christian Biography (William Milligan), as well as passing notices in standard ecclesiastical histories such as Neander, Hase, Killen, Schaff, &c., and Introductory notices of Valesius (Hussey), Parker, Bright, &c.