Sermones, Volume 1 de Vita Gregorii Thaumaturgi; de Sancto Theodoro; In Sanctum Stephanum I Et II; In Basilium Fratrum; In XL Martyres Ia, Ib Et II

After the death of Hermann Langerbeck, the Patristic Commission of the Academies of Science entrusted Heinrich Dvrrie and the "Forschungsstelle Gregor von Nyssa" set up by him at the University of M]nster, West Germany, with the edition of the second part of the sermons of Gregory of Nyssa. Because of the size of the corpus, it was decided to split into two the single volume (X) of the Opera Gregorii Nysseni in which it was previously planned to publish these texts. Volume X 1, now published, contains Gregory's sermons on saints and martyrs: De vita Gregorii Thaumaturgi (ed. G. Heil); De sancto Theodoro (ed. J.P. Cavarnos); In sanctum Stephanum I, II, In Basilium fratrem and In XL Martyres Ia, Ib, II (ed. O. Lendle).These sermons were later to exercise a great influence on the Greek church and were quickly taken up into the standard collections of hagiographical texts. They are to be found today in a total of 376 manuscripts, which form (with the exception of a few less accessible manuscripts) the basis for the present critical edition of the texts. The editing of these many copies of the text was greatly facilitated by the editorial method for use with richly attested Patristic texts developed by O. Lendle in the course of preparing his preliminary edition of "In Sanctum Stephanum (published 1968).Nach dem Tode von Hermann Langerbeck hatte die Patristische Kommission der Akademien der Wissenschaften Heinrich Dvrrie und die von ihm gegr]ndete "Forschungsstelle Gregor von Nyssa" an der Westfdlichen Wilhelms-Universitdt in M]nster mit der Edition des 2. Teiles der Sermones Gregors von Nyssa beauftragt. Wegen des zu starken Umfangs wurde das f]r diese Edition vorgesehene Volumen Xder Gregorii Nysseni Opera in zwei Teile aufgeteilt. Vol. X 1, das nun im Druck ist und dessen Textteil hier vorliegt, enthdlt die Reden Gregors auf Heilige und Mdrtyrer: De vita Gregorii Thaumaturgi (ed. G. Heil); De sancto Theodoro (ed. J.P. Cavarnos); In sanctum Stephanu