{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/201/2010024.htm","path":"chr/ecf/201/2010024.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/201/2010024.htm","text":"The literature upon Eusebius\u2019 History is very extensive. Many of the editions already mentioned discuss, in their prolegomena, the History itself and Eusebius\u2019 character as a historian, as do also all the lives of Eusebius referred to above, and all the larger histories of the Church. In addition to these we have numerous important monographs and essays, of which the following may be mentioned here: M\u00f6ller, de Fide Eusebii in rebus christianis enarrandis, Havn. 1813; Danz, de Eusebio C\u00e6sariensi Hist. Ecclesiastic\u00e6 Scriptore, Jen\u00e6, 1815. This was mentioned in Chapter I. as containing a valuable discussion of the life of Eusebius. Its chief importance lies in its treatment of the sources of the Church History, to which the author devotes the whole of p. 56 Chap. III. which bears the title, de fontibus, quibus usus, historiam ecclesiasticam conscripsit Eusebius, pp. 76\u2013144. Kestner, de Eusebii Histori\u00e6 Eccles. conditoris auctoritate, et fide diplomatica, sive de ejus Fontibus et Ratione qua eis usus est, Gotting\u00e6, 1816; and by the same author, Ueber die Einseitigkeit und Partheiligkeit des Eusebius als Geschichtschreibers, Jen\u00e6, 1819; Reuterdahl, de Fontibus Histori\u00e6 Eccles. Eusebian\u00e6, Londini Gothorum, 1826; Reinstra, de Fontibus, ex quibus Histori\u00e6 Eccles. opus hausit Eusebius Pamphili, et de Ratione, qua iis usus est, Trajecti ad Rhenum, 1833; F. C. Baur, Comparatur Eusebius Histori\u00e6 Eccles. Parens cum Parente Histori\u00e6 Herodoto, T\u00fcb. 1834; and pp. 9\u201326 of the same author\u2019s Epochen der kirchlichen Geschichtschreibung, T\u00fcb. 1852; Dowling, Introduction to the Critical Study of Eccles. History, London, 1838, pp. 11\u201318; H\u00e9ly, Eus\u00e8be de C\u00e9sar\u00e9e, premier Historien de l\u2019\u00c9glise, Paris, 1877; J. Burckhardt, Zeit Constantins, 2d ed. 1880, pp. 307 sq. Burckhardt depreciates Eusebius\u2019 value and questions his veracity. The review articles that have been written on Eusebius\u2019 History are legion. I shall mention only Engelhardt\u2019s Eusebius als Kirchengeschichtschreiber, in the Zeitschrift f\u00fcr hist. Theol. 1852, pp. 652\u2013657; and Jachmann\u2019s Bemerkungen \u00fcber die Kirchengeschichte des Eusebius, ib. 1839, II. pp. 10\u201360. The latter contains one of the most unsparing attacks upon Eusebius\u2019 honesty that has ever been made (see above, p. 49).","title":"Nicene and Ante-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol I: The Church History of Eusebius.: Section 5","type":"page"}