born с 347, Stridon, Dalmatia
died 419/420, Bethlehem, Palestine
Church Father and biblical translator.
Born into a wealthy Christian family in Dalmatia, he was educated there and in Rome. Baptized с 366, he spent most of the next 20 years in travel. He lived two years as a hermit in the desert of Chalcis. From 377 to 379 Jerome was in Antioch, where he studied biblical texts and translated the works of Origen and Pelagianism and other heresies. In 406 he completed his translation of the Bible into Latin, including his own translation of the Old Testament from Hebrew; Jerome's Latin Bible is known as the Vulgate.