Hieronymus
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Hieronymus, pronounced /haɪˈrɒnɪməs/, the Greek and Latin form of the name Jerome, means "sacred name."
It may refer to several people:
- Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus, better known as Saint Jerome (340 - 420)
- Hiëronymus Emiliani, better known as St. Jerome Emiliani (1486 - 1537)
- Hieronymus of Cardia, Greek general and historian
- Hieronymus of Rhodes, Greek peripatetic philosopher of the 3rd century BC
- Hieronymus of Syracuse, Greek tyrant
- Hieronymus Bosch, Dutch artist
- Hieronymus Fabricius, Italian anatomist
- Hieronymus Graf von Colloredo, Austrian Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg, Count of the Holy Roman Empire
- Hieronymus Praetorius, German Composer
- Hieronymus Theodor Richter, German chemist
- Hieronymus Wolf, German historian
- Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen, Danish mathematician
- Hieronymus, son of Charles Martel
- Georg Hans Emmo Wolfgang Hieronymus, German botanist
- Otto Hieronymus, German engineer
- Marcus Hieronymus Vida, 16th-century Italian poet and bishop
- Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens
- Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch, fictional character
- Charlie Hieronymus Pace, fictional character
- Holger Hieronymus, German former football player
Variants of this name in various languages include:
- Albanian: Jeronimi
- Arabic: جيروم (Jerome)
- Basque: Jeronimo
- Belarusian: Еранім (Yeranim)
- Bulgarian: Йероним (Yeronim)
- Catalan: Jeroni
- Written Chinese: 耶柔米
- Mandarin: Yéróumǐ
- Croatian: Jeronim
- Czech: Jeroným, Jeronýmus (archaic)
- Danish: Hieronymus
- Dutch: Hiëronymus, Jeroen
- English: Jerome, Hieronymus, Geromy
- Esperanto: Hieronimo
- Estonian: Hieronymus
- Finnish: Hieronymus
- French: Jérôme, Gérôme
- Galician Xerome
- German: Hieronymus
- Ancient Greek : Ἱερώνυμος (Hierṓnumos)
- Modern Greek: Ιερώνυμος (Ierónymos)
- Hebrew: הירונימוס (Hieronymus)
- Hungarian: Jeromos
- Indonesian: Hieronimus
- Interlingua: Jeronimo
- Italian: Girolamo, Gerolamo, Geronimo, Geromino
- Japanese: ヒエロニムス (Hieronimusu)
- Korean: 히에로니무스 (Hieronimuseu), 제롬 (Jerom)
- Latin: Hieronymus
- Lithuanian: Jeronimas
- Malayalam: ജെറോം
- Norwegian: Hieronymus
- Polish: Hieronim
- Portuguese: Jerónimo, Brazilian Jerônimo
- Romanian: Ieronim
- Russian: Иероним (Iyeronim)
- Sardinian: Ziròminu
- Dutch Low Saxon: Hiëronymus
- Serbian: Јероним (Jeronim)
- Slovak: Hieronym
- Spanish: Jerónimo
- Swahili: Jeromu
- Swedish: Hieronymus
- Tagalog: Jeronimo, Geronimo
- Thai: นักบุญเจอโรม
- Ukrainian: Ієронім (Iyeronim)
- Vietnamese: Jerome
It may also refer to:
- the pseudoscientific Hieronymus machine
- HIER.S, an Italian wind instrument maker or makers.
