Herman Hugo

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]

From an English translation of Pia desideria, 1690

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
Obsidio bredana, Antwerp, Plantin office, 1626. An account of the Siege of Breda (1624) by Ambrogio Spinola.
De militia equestri antiqua et noua ad regem Philippum IV, Antwerp, Ex Officina Plantiniana, 1630 (posthumously)

References

Agnès Guiderdoni-Bruslé (2004). "L'ame amante de son Dieu by Madame Guyon (1717): Pure love between Antwerp, Paris and Amsterdam, at the crossroads between orthodoxy and heterodoxy". In Arie Jan Gelderblom; Jan L. De Jong; Marc van Vaeck (eds.). The Low Countries as a crossroads of religious beliefs. BRILL. p. 301. ISBN 978-90-04-12288-8. Retrieved 2 June 2013.
Peter Maurice Daly (2008). Companion to emblem studies. AMS Press. p. 109. ISBN 978-0-404-63720-0. Retrieved 2 June 2013.
Simon A. Vosters (1997). "Love fever: Guevara, Gruterius, Catsius and "Schoonhovius"". In Jozef Ijsewijn (ed.). Humanistica Lovaniensia. Leuven University Press. p. 306. ISBN 978-90-6186-822-4. Retrieved 2 June 2013.
Andrée Thill; Gilles Banderier, eds. (1999). La lyre Jésuite: anthologie de poèmes Latins (1620-1730). Librairie Droz. p. 19. ISBN 978-2-600-00372-8. Retrieved 2 June 2013.

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[GelderblomJong2004-1] Agnès Guiderdoni-Bruslé (2004). "L'ame amante de son Dieu by Madame Guyon (1717): Pure love between Antwerp, Paris and Amsterdam, at the crossroads between orthodoxy and heterodoxy". In Arie Jan Gelderblom; Jan L. De Jong; Marc van Vaeck (eds.). The Low Countries as a crossroads of religious beliefs. BRILL. p. 301. ISBN 978-90-04-12288-8. Retrieved 2 June 2013.

[Daly2008-2] Peter Maurice Daly (2008). Companion to emblem studies. AMS Press. p. 109. ISBN 978-0-404-63720-0. Retrieved 2 June 2013.

[Ijsewijn1997-3] Simon A. Vosters (1997). "Love fever: Guevara, Gruterius, Catsius and "Schoonhovius"". In Jozef Ijsewijn (ed.). Humanistica Lovaniensia. Leuven University Press. p. 306. ISBN 978-90-6186-822-4. Retrieved 2 June 2013.

[ThillBanderier1999-4] Andrée Thill; Gilles Banderier, eds. (1999). La lyre Jésuite: anthologie de poèmes Latins (1620-1730). Librairie Droz. p. 19. ISBN 978-2-600-00372-8. Retrieved 2 June 2013.