Biographical dossier

Jerome

Jerome is classified in the historical people index as RELIGIOUS FIGURE. This dossier preserves the indexed life dates and geographic anchors while explicitly marking what the source does not supply.

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Record details
Research ID
catholon:person:person:wd:Q44248
Catalogue ID
person:wd:Q44248
Wikidata ID
Q44248
Occupation class
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
Life span
AD 345–AD 420
Birth anchor
Pannonia (AD 345)
Death anchor
Bethlehem (AD 420)
HPI
83.91678686446922

Chronological record

The dataset places the life between AD 345 and AD 420. These indexed dates are identity and chronology fields, not a substitute for a critical biography.

Geographic anchors

Birth: Pannonia (AD 345). Death: Bethlehem (AD 420).

Country keys are dataset keys and must not be mistaken for the historical boundaries that existed during the person’s lifetime.

Historical role

The source assigns the broad occupation class RELIGIOUS FIGURE. It does not by itself establish doctrine, sanctity, political legitimacy, responsibility for every event associated with the person, or the exact scope of an office.

Source and identity method

Source: PANTHEON_2_2020. Identity method: pantheon_wikidata_qid. Language-edition measure: 11.462262309646675.

Research questions

  1. Which primary sources are contemporary with this person?
  2. Which office, community or institution gives the person historical agency?
  3. How do later confessional, national or ideological narratives reshape the record?
  4. Which places on the atlas are genuine life anchors and which are later reception sites?
Phase II — source-led historical deepening

Historical horizon

Jerome connects Rome, Antioch, the Syrian desert and Bethlehem with biblical scholarship, ascetic controversy and Latin translation. The profile follows his correspondence, commentaries, the Vulgate project and his place in the late-antique Church.

Primary-source path

  • Jerome, Letters
  • Prefaces to biblical books
  • De viris illustribus
  • Biblical commentaries
  • Augustine–Jerome correspondence

Geography and institutions

Birth anchor: Pannonia; Death anchor: Bethlehem The map anchors support navigation, but no point is treated as the whole extent of a ministry, kingdom, journey or later cult.

Connected study paths

Church FathersBethlehem

This layer expands the catalogue entry without turning later reception into contemporary evidence. Confessional judgements, historical claims and uncertain traditions remain explicitly distinguishable.