Herman Hugo
Belgian Jesuit priest and writer (1588–1629)
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Herman Hugo (9 May 1588 – 11 September 1629) was a Jesuit priest, writer and military chaplain. His Pia desideria, a spiritual emblem book published in Antwerp in 1624,[1] was "the most popular religious emblem book of the seventeenth century".[2] It went through 42 Latin editions and was widely translated up to the 18th century.[3]
Life
Herman Hugo was born in Brussels. He studied philosophy and theology at the University of Louvain. He died of plague on 11 September 1629 at Rheinsberg.[4]
Works
- Pia desideria emblematis elegiis at affectibus SS. Patrum illunstrata, Antwerp, 1624[5]
- Obsidio Bredana, Antwerp, Plantin Press, 1626. An account of Ambrogio Spinola's Siege of Breda (1624)[6]
- De militia equestri antiqua et noua, Antwerp, Plantin Press, 1630 (published posthumously)[7]