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Nestorianus (Greek: Νεστοριανός, Nestorianos) was a Greek historian who wrote a chronicle that covered the Roman Empire down to 474. It is considered lost and is known only through its use by John Malalas and the anonymous author of the Chronicon Paschale.

Nestorianus may have been personally known to Malalas, who calls him a "chronographer". The information that Malalas cites to Nestorianus' chronicle mainly concerns the "reign lengths, ages and modes of death of emperors." It may have been little more than a detailed list of emperors. Still, it has been argued that Nestorianus was the source for Malalas' early Christian history, including the date of the ascension of Jesus (AD 31). According to Malalas, the chronicle of "the most learned" Nestorianus ended with the death of Emperor Leo II in November 474. From that point on in his own work, Malalas no longer provides descriptions of the emperors' appearance, which suggests that he may have taken these from the work of Nestorianus.

The historian Edwin Patzig [de] argues that Nestorianus was the same person as Domninus, another one of Malalas' sources, and that "Nestorianus" was merely a description of his religious affiliation (i.e., he was a Nestorian).

References

1. ^ Nestorianus, History, at Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris (CHAP).
2. Brian Croke, "Byzantine Chronicle Writing", in Elizabeth Jeffreys, Brian Croke and Roger Scott (eds.), Studies in John Malalas (Brill, 1990), pp. 27–54.
3. ^ Elizabeth Jeffreys, "Malalas' Sources", in Elizabeth Jeffreys, Brian Croke and Roger Scott (eds.), Studies in John Malalas (Brill, 1990), pp. 167–216, esp. at 187.
4. Brian Croke, "The Imperial Reigns of Leo II", Byzantinische Zeitschrift 96, 2 (2003): 559–575.

• Ancient Greek historians known only from secondary sources
• Byzantine chroniclers