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Herman Hugo

Writer
Herman Hugo was a Jesuit priest, writer and military chaplain. His Pia desideria, a spiritual emblem book published in Antwerp in 1624, was "the most popular religious emblem book of the seventeenth century". It went through 42 Latin editions and... Wikipedia
Born: May 9, 1588, Brussels, Belgium
Died: September 11, 1629 (age 41 years), Rheinsberg, Germany
Books