Herman Hugo Explained

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
• 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)

Notes and References

1. Book: Agnès Guiderdoni-Bruslé . Arie Jan Gelderblom . Jan L. De Jong . Marc van Vaeck . The Low Countries as a crossroads of religious beliefs. https://books.google.com/books?id=DxWUCtuXAlQC&pg=PA301. 2 June 2013. 2004. BRILL. 978-90-04-12288-8. 301. L'ame amante de son Dieu by Madame Guyon (1717): Pure love between Antwerp, Paris and Amsterdam, at the crossroads between orthodoxy and heterodoxy.
2. Book: Peter Maurice Daly. Companion to emblem studies. 2 June 2013. 2008. AMS Press. 978-0-404-63720-0. 109.
3. Book: Simon A. Vosters. Jozef Ijsewijn. Humanistica Lovaniensia. https://books.google.com/books?id=glb2gVRkbx4C&pg=PA306. 2 June 2013. 1997. Leuven University Press. 978-90-6186-822-4. 306. Love fever: Guevara, Gruterius, Catsius and "Schoonhovius".
4. Book: Andrée Thill . Gilles Banderier . La lyre Jésuite: anthologie de poèmes Latins (1620-1730). 2 June 2013. 1999. Librairie Droz. 978-2-600-00372-8. 19.