Tertullian was a prolific early Christian author from Carthage in the Roman province of Africa. He was the first Christian author to produce an extensive corpus of Latin Christian literature and was an early Christian apologist and a polemicist against what he viewed as heresy, including Gnosticism. 150 – 220; died at about 69. Alive at the same time as Marcus Aurelius, Ptolemy, Nagarjuna, Apuleius, and Plotinus. Wiki link