Hieronymus
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| Meaning | Sacred name |
| Wikipedia articles | All pages beginning with Hieronymus |
Hieronymus comes from the Ancient Greek and 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 Bosch, artist
- Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch, Fictional Character
- Hieronymus Fabricius, anatomist
- Hieronymus of Cardia, Greek general and historian
- Hieronymus of Rhodes, Greek peripatetic philosopher of the 3rd century BC
- Hieronymus of Syracuse, Greek tyrant
- Hieronymus Graf von Colloredo, Austrian Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg, Count of the Holy Roman Empire
- Hieronymus Wolf, historian
- Hieronymus, son of Charles Martel
- Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen, Danish mathematician
- Marcus Hieronymus Vida, 16th-century Italian poet and bishop
- Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens
Variants of this name in various languages include:
- Dutch: Hiëronymus, Jeroen
- English: Jerome, Hieronymus
- French: Jérôme, Gérôme
- German: Hieronymus
- Greek : Ιερώνυμος (Hieronymos).
- Hungarian: Jeromos
- Italian: Girolamo, Gerolamo, Geronimo, Geromino
- Latin: Hieronymus
- Lithuanian: Jeronimas
- Polish: Hieronim
- Portuguese: Jerónimo
- Russian : Иероним
- Spanish: Jerónimo
- Swedish: Hieronymus
It may also refer to:
- the pseudoscientific Hieronymus machine
- HIER.S, an Italian wind instrument maker or makers.
