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Hugo Hugo (whose vernacular name is not attested, perhaps Herman Huyghs), born the in Brussels and deceased on In Rheinberg (Rhineland-Westphalia), was a Jesuit priest from the southern Netherlands, a Latin poet-writer and military chaplain of the Spanish royal troops.
After his secondary humanities he did two years of philosophy studies at the University of Louvain before entering, the , in the company of Jesus. He does his novitiate in Tournai.
His first spiritual training completed he teaches at the Jesuit college of Antwerp (1607-1612). He stood out by directing an anthology of poems composed by his students to honor the memory of the bishops of the city of Antwerp. It’s the Report posthumous presultery antverpiensum (1611). The same year he published letters from Jesuit missionaries in China, Fathers Matteo Ricci and Joao Rodrigues.
Military chaplain [ modifier | Modifier and code ]
Ordered priest (Probably to Louvain) He was appointed prefect of studies at the Brussels college. It was then that he was noticed by Philippe d’Arenberg, Duke of Aarschot who took him with him during a trip to Spain (in 1621). He returns as chaplain of the Spanish royal troops.
Ambroise de Spinola who commands Spanish troops in the Netherlands takes him as chaplain. From then on Herman Hugo accompanies him in his military campaigns. It’s here Mission castras (the Camp ). It is present at the seat of Bergen-Op-Zoom of 1622 (a failure of Spinola). He mainly witnesses the taking and surrender of Breda in 1625, a triumph for the same Marquis de Spinola [ first ] . Hugo makes it a written relationship: Obsider Bredana (1626). The book is quickly translated into Spanish, English and French
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Excellent polyglot, Herman Hugo speaks Dutch, French, Spanish and Italian, but it is the Latin which was the only language in which he expressed his feelings and his mystical sensitivity: he composed as easily as prose as ‘towards. His career as an author began in 1617 with his The first writing origin and universal literary , a dissertation on the invention of letters and genres of writing, as well as instruments used by the ancients to write.
His mistress work was released in Antwerp in 1624: Pia desires. Emblemas and the emblems of ss. Fathers illustrate . His Loving desires are written in Latin verse and include three pounds. (Book I) Groans of the penitent . (Book II): Vows holy . (free III): Sighting soul lover . These are long paraphrases in elegiac worms of various passages from the Holy Scripture and Fathers of the Church written with a poetic feather. This work, whose subject is the soul in search of holiness is one of the most popular in emblematic literature of the Baroque era. She exerted a decisive influence: some forty editions in Latin until 1757, not to mention translations and adaptations.
Respected as much by the troops as the officers Herman Hugo dies in service the , carried away by the plague. He is barely 41 years old.
- 1617: The first writing origin and universal literature antiquities , “8 volumes, Antwerp, 1617. (This book was reissued by Trotzius 1738)
- 1620: The true trust , Antwerp.
- 1624: Loving desires Anvers, in the eighth, Boethius, 1624.
- 1626: Obsidio Bredana, under Ambrosio Spinola , in folio, Anvers, 1629.
- 1630: Knights, old and new , in folio, Anvers, 1630.
- Wolfgang Harms: Symbol worlds. Emblematic media in the early modern period , 1999, p. 24 (Biography summarized.)
- William Tooke, William Beloe, Robert Nares: A new and general biographical dictionary , 1798, p. 290 ( Digitized edition. )
- A.J. van der Aa, Biographical Dictionary of the Netherlands , volume 8, second part, 1867.
- P.J. Blok and P.C. Molhuysen, New Dutch biographical dictionary , volume 5, 1921.
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