Fabricius, Hieronymus

Fabricius, Hieronymus, 1537-1619, Italian anatomist; pupil and successor of Fallopius and teacher of William Harvey at Padua. He was a surgeon, an embryologist, and an anatomist; he described the venous valves but did not fully understand their function.

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, Brazilian Jerônimo
• Russian : Иероним
• Spanish: Jerónimo
• Swedish: Hieronymus

It may also refer to:

• the pseudoscientific Hieronymus machine
• HIER.S, an Italian wind instrument maker or makers.