Hieronymus

Hieronymus
Origin
Word/Name	Greek
Meaning	Sacred name

Hieronymus, pronounced /haɪˈrɒnɪməs/, is the Greek and Latin form of the given name Jerome and means "sacred name."

Notable persons with that given name include:

• Hieronymus Carl Friedrich von Münchhausen, famous recounter of tall tales, fictionalized as Baron Munchausen (1720 – 1797)
• 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 Cock, Flemish painter and etcher
• 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 Vietor (ca. 1480–1546/47), printer in Vienna and Kraków
• Hieronymus Wierix, Flemish engraver
• 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
• Hieronymus (bishop of Wrocław), early medieval Bishop of Wrocław, Poland from 1046-1062

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, or Jeronymo as an Azorian family name
• 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

See also

• Hieronymus machine, a pseudoscientific device