Augustine was born in Thagaste (present-day Souk Ahras, Algeria), a provincial Roman city in North Africa, the son of a Catholic mother and pagan father. He was raised a Catholic, and at age of 11, he went to school at Madaurus, about 19 miles south of Thagaste. There he learned both Latin literature and pagan beliefs and practices. He returned home in 369 and stayed for about two yeras, reading Cicero's dialogue Hortensius. At age 17 he went to Carthage to continue his education in rhetoric. He decided to follow the Manichaean religion, lived a hedonistic lifestyle for a time, and took a lover who stayed with him for over thirteen years and gave birth to his son. In 373-374, Augustine taught grammar at Tagaste. In 375 he moved to Carthage to conduct a school of rhetoric. In 383 he moved to Rome to establish another school. However, he was disappointed with the Roman schools, and instead of paying their fees, his students fled. Through his friends he obtained a professorship teaching rhetoric at the imperial court at Milan in 384. The young provincial won the job and headed north to take up his position in late 384. While in Rome, he turned away from Manichaeanism in favour of the skepticism of the New Academy movement. He became engaged and left his lover, but never married the girl to whom he had been engaged. In 386, converted to Catholic Christianity, left his career in rhetoric, devoted himself to serving God. He returned to north Africa, sold his patrimony and gave the money to the poor, and converted his family house into a monastic foundation. In 391 he was ordained a priest in Hippo Regius (now Annaba, Algeria). He became a famous preacher, and in 396 he was made assistant bishop and then full bishop shortly after. He left his monastery, but continued to lead a monastic life in the episcopal residence, and he remained Bishop of Hippo until his death in 430. Augustine was one of the most prolific authors of his time in surviving works, which number more than a hundred. Of these, the most well known is his Confessiones, written in 397-398.
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Confessiones
149 editions - first published in 1595 -
De civitate Dei
109 editions - first published in 1440 -
Confessiones
39 editions - first published in 1482 -
Confessiones
32 editions - first published in 1842 -
De civitate Dei
18 editions - first published in 1468 -
Select letters: complectens illius epistolas
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Opera omnia
16 editions - first published in 1835 -
De musica
15 editions - first published in 1941 -
Oeuvres de Saint Augustin
13 editions - first published in 1936 -
Enarrationes in Psalmos: by S.Augustne, Bishop of Hippo.
13 editions - first published in 1680 -
De civitate Dei
11 editions - first published in 1475 -
Selected works
11 editions - first published in 1804 -
De libero arbitrio
11 editions - first published in 1955 -
Fathers of the Church: Saint Augustine
11 editions - first published in 1950 -
Confessions
10 editions - first published in 1961 -
Confessiones
10 editions - first published in 1982 -
Sermons to the people: Advent, Christmas, New Year's, Epiphany
10 editions - first published in 1493 -
De Trinitate
9 editions - first published in 1515 -
Regula: masculine and feminine versions
9 editions - first published in 1574 -
Basic Writings Of Saint Augustine
8 editions - first published in 2006 -
Works: a new translation. Edited by Marcus Dods.
8 editions - first published in 1872 -
Confessiones
7 editions - first published in 1963 -
Pious breathings
7 editions - first published in 1701 -
The Confessions
7 editions - first published in 2006 -
The Confessions of Saint Augustine
6 editions - first published in 1997 -
The Confessions of St. Augustine
6 editions - first published in 1945 -
Fathers of the Church: Saint Augustine
6 editions - first published in 1951 -
Confessiones
6 editions - first published in 1909 -
Enchiridion
6 editions - first published in 1539 -
City of God
5 editions - first published in 1977 -
De trinitate libri XV
5 editions - first published in 1474 -
De doctrina Christiana
5 editions - first published in 1962 -
Writings of Saint Augustine
5 editions - first published in 1917 -
Contra Julianum
5 editions - first published in 1957 -
The city of God: De civitate Dei
5 editions - first published in 1871 -
City of God
5 editions - first published in 1960 -
Augustine
5 editions - first published in 1953 -
De Genesi ad litteram
5 editions - first published in 1972 -
An Augustine synthesis
5 editions - first published in 1939 -
Later works
5 editions - first published in 1955 -
Political writings: Edited with an introd. by Henry Paolucci. Including an interpretative analysis by Dino Bigongiari.
5 editions - first published in 1962 -
Aurelii Augustini opera
4 editions - first published in 1954 -
Traite s anti-donatistes
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The immortality of the soul, The magnitude of the soul, On music, The advantage of believing, On faith in things unseen
4 editions - first published in 1947 -
De doctrina Christiana
4 editions - first published in 1958 -
Commentary on the Lord's Sermon on the Mount: with seventeen related sermons
4 editions - first published in 1951 -
Opera: Werke
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De natura boni
4 editions - first published in 1945 -
Contra academicos
4 editions - first published in 1943 -
St. Augustine
4 editions - first published in 1925 -
Speculum peccatoris
4 editions - first published in 1593 -
The essential Augustine: Selected and with commentary by Vernon J. Bourke.
4 editions - first published in 1964 -
On Christian doctrine
4 editions - first published in 1958 -
Confessiones
3 editions - first published in 2007 -
The Essential Augustine (Essentials)
3 editions - first published in 1968 -
Confessiones
3 editions - first published in 2007 -
De diversis quaestionibus ad Simplicianum: Augustinus von Hippo ; De diversus quaestionibus ad simplicianum I 2
3 editions - first published in 1970 -
La cité de Dieu
3 editions - first published in 1930 -
Opere antiariane
3 editions - first published in 2000 -
Divi Aurelii Augustini Hippon. Episcopi Meditationes, Soliloquia et Manuale: Meditationes B. Anselmi cum tractatu de humani generis redemptione ; D. Bernardi, Idiotae viri docti de amore divino : omnia ad mss. exemplaria emend. & in meliorem ordin. distributa
3 editions - first published in 1639 -
De beata vita: Über das Glück
3 editions - first published in 1931 -
Augustine essentials: the complete unabridged texts
3 editions - first published in 2009 -
Confessiones
3 editions - first published in 1838 -
St. Augustine answers 101 questions on prayer
3 editions - first published in 2009 -
Treatises on marriage and other subjects: The good of marriage, adulterous marriage, Holy virginity, faith and works, the Creed, faith and the Creed, the care to be taken for the dead, in answer to the Jews, the divination of demons
3 editions - first published in 1955 -
De dono perseverantiae
3 editions - first published in 1956 -
Treatises on various subjects: The Christian life, lying, against lying, continence, patience, the excellence of widowhood, the work of monks, the usefulness of fasting, the eight questions of Dulcitius
3 editions - first published in 1952 -
St. Augustine's treatise on the City of God
3 editions - first published in 1915 -
De haeresibus
3 editions - first published in 1576 -
King Alfred's Old English version of St. Augustine's Soliloquies: turned into modern English
3 editions - first published in 1902 -
Eighty-three different questions
3 editions - first published in 1982 -
De dialectica
3 editions - first published in 1975 -
De immortalitate animae: Magnitude of the soul; On music; Advantage of believing; On faith in things unseen
3 editions - first published in 1947 -
Augustine: On Christian Doctrine
3 editions - first published in 1958 -
On Christian Doctrine
3 editions - first published in 1985 -
Sermons on selected lessons of the New Testament: y S. Augustine.
3 editions - first published in 1845 -
The city of God, tr. and ed. by Marcus Dods
3 editions - first published in 1871 -
The letters of Saint Augustine
3 editions - first published in 1890 -
Contra academicos: De beata vita. De ordine.
3 editions - first published in 1951 -
Seventeen Short Treatises Of St. Augustine, Bishop Of Hippo
2 editions - first published in 2007 -
Select Anti-Pelagian Treatises Of St. Augustine And The Acts Of The Second Council Of Orange
2 editions - first published in 2006 -
The Fathers of the Church
2 editions - first published in 1956 -
Confessiones
2 editions - first published in 1990 -
Confessiones
2 editions - first published in 1977 -
Confessiones
2 editions - first published in 2000 -
The Anti-Donatist Writings Of St. Augustine
2 editions - first published in 2005 -
The Anti-Manichaean Writings Of St. Augustine
2 editions - first published in 2005 -
St. Augustin's City of God and Christian Doctrine [A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church - Volume II]: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church Part 2 (Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church)
2 editions - first published in 2002 -
Sancti Avreli Avgvstini Scripta contra donatistas
2 editions - first published in 1908 -
Epistolae
2 editions - first published in 1471 -
Opuscula plurima
2 editions - first published in 1484 -
Aurelii Augustini opuscula plurima
2 editions - first published in 1491 -
La cité de Dieu
2 editions - first published in 1949 -
La cite de Dieu
2 editions - first published in 1930 -
Sancti Augustini Milleloquium veritatis
2 editions - first published in 1555 -
Polemica con Giuliano
2 editions - first published in 1985 -
Opere esegetiche
2 editions - first published in 1997 -
Opere antieretiche
2 editions - first published in 2003 -
Dialoghi
2 editions - first published in 1982 -
Sancti Aurelii Augustini Hipponensis episcopi operum
2 editions - first published in 1680
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