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or Theodosius the Great in full Flavius Theodosius born Jan. 11, 347, Cauca, Gallaecia [Spain] died Jan. 17, 395, Mediolanum Roman emperor of the East (379-392) and of East and West (392-395). Born of Christian parents, he served in the military under his father, a general. He distinguished himself against the Sarmatians and was proclaimed coemperor by Gratian to rule in the eastern empire (379). To settle the contentious debate over true Christianity, he adopted the Nicene Creed as the Christian norm (380). He reached a treaty with the Visigoths (382). When the Spanish general Maximus overthrew the new coemperor in the western empire (387), Theodosius defeated the usurper (388) and claimed supreme authority over the whole empire (392). He argued with St. Ambrose over the role of the church in imperial affairs but did not grant power to the church. In 392 forces advocating paganism led by Arbogast and Eugenius took power in Rome. In 394 Theodosius defeated them and claimed the Christian God victorious over the pagan gods. born April 10, 401, Constantinople died July 28, 450 Eastern Roman emperor (408-450). In 402 he was made coemperor with his father, Arcadius (son of Theodosius I), then became sole ruler of the East at age seven, initially under a regency. A gentle, scholarly man, he allowed relatives and ministers to dominate his government. His generals twice repelled the Persians (422, 447) but failed to evict the Vandals from Roman Africa (429) and to prevent Attila's invasions (441-443, 447). The Nestorian heresy caused internal upheaval. Theodosius was credited with building the wall around Constantinople (413), founding the University of Constantinople (425), and promulgating the Theodosian Code (438). Dobzhansky Theodosius Theodosius I Flavius Theodosius Theodosius the Great Theodosius I Boradiotes Theodosius II Theodosius of Alexandria
Theodosius Dobzhansky
orig. Feodosy Grigorevich Dobrzhansky born Jan. 25, 1900, Nemirov, Ukr., Russian Empire died Dec. 18, 1975, Davis, Calif., U.S. Ukrainian-born U.S. geneticist and evolutionist. He immigrated in 1927 to the U.S., where he taught at the California Institute of Technology, Columbia University, and Rockefeller University. He laid the groundwork for a theory combining Darwinian evolution and Mendelian genetics by changing the then commonly held view that natural selection produced something close to the best of all possible results and that changes would be rare and slow and not apparent over one life span. He observed extensive genetic variability in wild populations of Drosophila, and he found that in a given population some genes would regularly change in abundance with the seasons of the year
Theodosius I Boradiotes
born , Antioch died after 1183, Constantinople Greek Orthodox patriarch of Constantinople (1179-83). As patriarch, he upheld stringent conversion requirements for converts from Islam against the wishes of Emperor Manuel I Comnenus. He also opposed Manuel's overtures to Pope Alexander III and the Latin church of the West, refusing to cooperate with a proposed reunion of the two branches of Christianity. The succeeding emperor forced Theodosius to abdicate
Theodosius of Alexandria
flourished 6th century died June 566, Constantinople Patriarch of Constantinople (535-566). A moderate Monophysite, he was opposed by more extreme Monophysites and did not accept the orthodox position expressed by the Council of Chalcedon (451). He was prevented from administering his patriarchate by his detention in Constantinople, but he influenced the independent churches in Antioch, Syria, and Egypt. See Monophysite heresy