Jerome
Jerome names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Jerome or HIERONYMUS
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
or HIERONYMUS, one of tion HIERONY the fathers of the Church; born ab. 340, along Le Church at Stridon, on the frontiers of Dacia. was W. he frontie He ordained a presbyter at Antioch, 378, is Jersey a presbyte and soon after went to Constantincor went t ople, where he lived with Gregory Nazianzen. In the with ved with 382 he visited Rome and he visited was made secretary to Pope Damasus; other ary to Pop but three years afterward he returned library afterward into the East, accompanied by several man ccompanied female devotees who wished to lead an who wished ascetic life in the Holy Land. His writ- College Holy Land ings are very numerous, the most impitals merous, portant being his Commentaries on variwas tal Commenta ous parts of the Bible. The Church Bible. owes to him the Latin translation of the was Latin trans Bible, well known under the name of the under the Vulgate. His style is singularly pure le is sine and classical. He died in 420. terests died in 4 with
Jerome JEROME KLAPKA, an of English author
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JEROME KLAPKA, an of English author; born in Walsall, May 2, 1861. born in Wa the the He wrote: "On the Stage and "On the Off" (1888), largely autobiographical; rgely auto Jersey "Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow"; and a of an Idle the comedy, "Barbara." "Three Men in a ara." "Th York Boat" (1889); "Paul Kelver" (1902); "Paul Kel "The Passing of the Third Floor Back" the Third (1907); "Cook" (1917), etc. He wrote (1917), et 13 is also many successful plays. Gave readsful plays. ings in the United States in 1914. d States in
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's account of the church father still largely stands, though scholars now date his birth to about 347 rather than "ab. 340," place Stridon on the Dalmatian–Pannonian border rather than Dacia, and stress that he translated much of the Old Testament from Hebrew rather than from the Greek — a choice vindicated when the Dead Sea Scrolls came to light from 1947. His Vulgate remained the Catholic Church's official Latin Bible until the revised Nova Vulgata was promulgated in 1979. The second Jerome was very much alive when Collier's wrote in 1921: Jerome K. Jerome published an autobiography, "My Life and Times," in 1926 and died on 14 June 1927. Collier's also gives his birth year as 1861; he was in fact born at Walsall on 2 May 1859, and "Three Men in a Boat" has never since been out of print.
Written for this edition, 2026.