Herman Hugo
Herman Hugo (born May 9, 1588 in Brussels , † September 11, 1629 in Rheinberg ) was a Belgian Jesuit .
Life
Herman Hugo entered the Jesuit order in Tournai in 1605 . 1613 he received in Antwerp , the ordination . He made his perpetual profession in Brussels in 1621.
In 1627 he published his work Pia desideria (Antwerp 1624), which became one of the most widespread works of baroque emblematics . It gave the name to the famous Pia desideria by Philipp Jacob Spener (1635–1705).
literature
- PJ Blok, PC Molhuysen: Article title . In: Petrus Johannes Blok , Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen (Ed.): Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek . Part 5. N. Israel, Amsterdam 1974, Sp. 250–251 (Dutch, knaw.nl / dbnl.org - first edition: AW Sijthoff, Leiden 1921, reprinted unchanged).
- Wolfgang Harms: SinnBilderWelten. Emblematic media in the early modern period . Institute for Modern German Literature, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-87707-534-7 , p. 24 (short biography).
- William Tooke, William Beloe, Robert Nares: A new and general biographical dictionary . Volume 8. London 1798, p. 290 (English, digitized in the Google book search)
Web links
- Literature by and about Herman Hugo in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Herman Hugo in the German Digital Library
- Works by and about Herman Hugo at Open Library
- Personal data (belg.)
- Herman Hugo in the Jesuitica
Individual evidence
- ↑ The correct year of death (because it is given with the exact day and is mentioned much more frequently) seems to be 1629, other sources also mention the year 1639. - Source: DBNL .
- ↑ jesuitica.be
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hugo, Herman |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian Jesuit and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 9, 1588 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brussels |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 11, 1629 |
| Place of death | Rheinberg |