Confessions

male
Ancient Roman Christianity, Works of the Church Fathers, The Confessions of St. Augustine, Christian texts, Manichaeism, autobiographies
"Confessions" is the name of a series of thirteen autobiographical books by St. Augustine of Hippo written between AD 397 and AD 398. In modern...
Bahram I

Bahram I

male, deceased (276)
Second Persian Empire, Sassanid Empire, Sassanid, Shapur I of Persia, Hormizd I of Persia, Theophoric names…Manichaeism
Bahram I ("r." 273-276), was the fourth Sassanid emperor of the second Persian Empire. He succeeded his brother Hormizd I ("r." 272-273), who had...
Huneric

Huneric

male, deceased (484)
Christian heresy, heretics, Anti-gnosticism, Arianism, Vandals, Manichaeism
Huneric (d. December 23, 484) was King of the Vandals (477 - 484) and the oldest son of Geiseric. He dropped the imperial politics of his father...

Isaac de Beausobre

male, deceased (1738)
Protestant, Theologian, French, brandenburg, saumur, edict of nantes…Manichaeism
Isaac de Beausobre, was a French Protestant churchman, now best known for his history of Manichaeism, "Histoire Critique de Manichée et du M...

Charles Allberry

male, deceased (1943)
Holland, royal air force, manichaean, egyptologist, egyptology, coptic…Manichaeism
Charles Robert Cecil Augustine Allberry (9 November 1911 - 3 April 1943) was an English Egyptologist and Coptic scholar. A friend of novelist CP...
Monica Of Hippo

Monica Of Hippo

female, deceased (387)
Souk Ahras, pagan, Saint, Ancient Roman Christianity, saint augustine, paganism…Manichaeism
Saint Monica of Hippo (332 - 387) is a Christian saint and mother of Saint Augustine. Saint Monica was of Berber descent (Monica was a Berber name...

Mazdak

male
iranian, Sassanid dynasty, Religious cosmology, Persian language, cosmology, Sassanian…Manichaeism
Mazdak (in Persian مزدک) (died c. 524 or 528) was a proto-socialist Persian philosopher and/or religious reformer who gained influence under the...
Martin A. Larson

Martin A. Larson

male, deceased (1994)
University of Michigan, Evangelical, Buddhist, Academic, milton, barbarian…Manichaeism
Martin A. Larson (March 2, 1897 - January 15, 1994) was an American populist freethinker and religion scholar specializing in theological history...

Zurvandokht

female
Sassanid, Manichaeism, Zurvan, Yubeh
Princess Zurvandokht was a daughter of Shapur II, a Sassanid king of Persia. She was named after Zurvan, supreme god of Manichaeism. She had a...