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-{{Infobox_Scientist
-|name = Laurentius Suslyga
-|birth_place = [[Poland]]
-|death_place = [[Poland]]
-|field = [[history]], [[chronology]]
-|work_institutions = [[University of Graz]], [[Austria]]
-|known_for  = the first to suggest that Christ was actually born in 4 BC, not AD 1
-}}
-Laurence Suslyga (''Polish'':  '''Wawrzyniec Suslyga''') was a [[Poland|Polish]] [[historian]] and [[chronologist]]. He was the first historian to claim that Jesus Christ was in fact born around 4 BC, not in AD 1, as the Christian era would imply. Suslyga was thus questioning the [[anno domini]] chronology introduced by [[Diogenes Exiguus]] in AD 525 <ref>Marking Time, by Duncan Steel</ref><ref>Kepler's View of the Star of Betlehem by A.J. Sachs</ref>. Suslyga published this theory in a 1605 tract called ''Theoremata de anno ortus et mortis Domini, deque universa Jesu Christi in carne oeconomia'' at the [[University of Graz]] <ref>Oesterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna</ref>. This tract was in turn used by [[Johannes Kepler|Kepler]] to bolster Kepler's theory that the [[Star of Betlehem]] was in fact a great conjunction of the three planets: [[Jupiter]], [[Saturn]] and [[Mars]]. According to Kepler's calculations, this conjunction occurred around 4 BC, which fits in with Suslyga's reckoning <ref>Kepler and the Star of Bethlehem by W. Burke-Gaffney</ref>.
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