Tertullian

Tertullian of Carthage is the first Latin Christian author who can be located and identified with relative precision. His life can be placed in the approximate period of 160–220. Virtually no information about him exists outside that supplied by his own writings. Jerome, it appears, had no source of information beyond Tertullian’s works, except for a conversation with a certain Paul of Concordia who related a story about Cyprian’s respect for Tertullian (Vir. Ill. 53). Eusebius’ information was probably based on a Greek translation of Apologeticum from which he quotes (HE 2.2.4).

Ronald E. Heine, “The Beginnings of Latin Christian Literature,” in The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature, ed. Frances Young, Lewis Ayres, and Andrew Louth (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 133.