A History of the Early Church: Volume II (Library of Ecclesiastical History)

Professor Hans Leitzmann was born in Dusseldorf in 1875. Despite an early aptitude for science, he turned to the study of classics and theology. He became Germany's premier authority in the field of patristics, being elected Chair of New Testament and Christian Archaeology at Berlin University in 1923. An internationally recognised scholar, he wrote and published prolifically in the fields of classics, philology, theology and Church history, often at the expense of his health. He began work on his monumental History of the Early Church in 1928, and the final volume was completed from his manuscripts after his death in 1942.