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Jerome

Eusebius Hieronymus

Jerome was the great biblical scholar of the Latin West, best known for translating the Old Testament into Latin from the Hebrew and for revising the Latin Gospels, work that became the Vulgate. His large correspondence ranges from spiritual direction and biblical exegesis to fierce polemic against Jovinian, Helvidius, and Vigilantius on asceticism, virginity, and the cult of the martyrs. He settled at Bethlehem in 386, where he lived until his death.

Dates
ca. 347–420 (approximate)
See or city
Bethlehem
Region
Palestine
Also known as
Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus; Hieronymus
Notes
A monk and priest, trained in classical rhetoric at Rome, who settled at Bethlehem after years of travel and ascetic life in Syria. Translator of the Vulgate from the Hebrew and Greek, prolific biblical commentator, and correspondent of Augustine, Damasus, and the ascetic circle of Roman women he directed; a sharp and combative controversialist.

Works