Hieronymus

Jerome is a male first name and a family name.

Origin

The name comes from ancient Greek, meaning " the man with the holy name ." It is derived from the Greek words hieros ( "holy" ) and onoma ( " name " ), the ancient Greek name is " Hieronymus ".

Variants

  • Hieronymus - Ancient Greek ( original form )
  • Hieronim - Polish; Иероним - Russian
  • Jerome - Latin, German
  • Geronimo - Italian Geronimo, Apache war chief and shaman

Well-known bearers of the name

  • Hieronymus was the pseudonym of the writer Frank Wedekind at publications in the satirical magazine Simplicissimus.

First name

  • Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498), Italian preacher
  • Hieronymus of Cardia ( Latinized Jerome; * 360 BC, † after 272 BC), ancient Greek historian
  • Jerome of Prague (1365-1416), scholar and Bohemian Hussite
  • Hieronymus of Rhodes (c. 290-230 BC), Peripatetic philosopher and literary historian
  • Hieronymus of Syracuse, tyrant of Syracuse
  • Hieronymus van Beverningh (1614-1690), statesman and diplomat from the Golden Age of the Netherlands
  • Hieronymus Bock (1498-1554), German botanist
  • Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516 ), Dutch painter
  • Hieronymus von Colloredo (1732-1812), Bishop of Gurk after 1762 and from 1772 to 1803 /12, last Prince Archbishop of Salzburg
  • Jerome Lauretus, Benedictine author
  • Hieronymus II Lindau (1657-1719), abbot of the imperial abbey Ochsenhausen
  • Hieronymus Rauscher (? -1569 ), Lutheran theologian
  • Hieronymus Wolf (1516-1580), German humanist and philologist
  • IRINEJ ( Patriarch ), Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church
  • Friedrich Hieronymus Truhn ( German conductor, composer and writer on music, born November 14, 1811 in Elbing, † April 30, 1886 in Berlin)
  • Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen (1720-1797), German nobleman, the stories are attributed by Baron Munchausen

Family name

  • Haimo Jerome ( b. 1969 ), German artist and writer
  • Hans Jerome ( 1902 -? ), German motorcycle racer
  • Holger Hieronymus (* 1959), German football player
  • Sven Hieronymus, German comedian
  • Thomas Galen Hieronymus (1895-1988), American engineer
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