Hiller, Philip Frederick, one of the best and most prolilic liymii writers of the Evangelical Church of Southern (ierniany, was born at jMiihlhauscn in 1699; educated under J. A. Bengel ; became pastor at two or three little villages, and finally at Steinheim in 1732 ; lost his voice in 1751, and died in 1769. After his re- tirement from the pulpit he devoted himself especially to sacred poetry, and produced over 1000 hj-mns, many of which have great excellencies. It is said that, next to the Bible, his spiritual songs are perhaps the most widely circidated book m Wiirtemberg (Hurst's Hagen- bach). A complete edition appeared at Reutlingen in 1844 and 1851. — lieizog,E€al-Encyklop.\ol,yi; Hagen-
bach. Hist, of the 18lh and Idth Centuries (translated by Hurst), ii, 393 ; Winkworth, Christian Singeis ofGerma- »y,p.278.
Hiilhou.se, Augustus L., author of the beautiful hymn beginning " Trembling before thine awful throne," was born at New Haven, Conn., about 1792, and died in Paris March 14, 1859. He was a younger brother of James A. Hillhouse, the poet. — Neio Engkinder, xviii, 557.
Hilliard, Ti.^iothy, a Congregational minister, was born in 1746 in Kiensington, N. H. He graduated at Harvard College in 1764, and in 1768 was appointed tu- tor, in Avhich position he remained until 1771, when he was ordained pastor at Barnstable. This charge he re- signed April, 1783, and was installed co-pastor at Cam- bridge Oct. 27, where he remained until his death, ]\Iay 9, 1790. He published the Dudkian Lectui-e at Har- vard College (1788), and several occasional sermons. — Sprague, Annals, i, 660.
Hillyer, Asa, D.D., a Presbyterian minister, was born in Sheffield, Mass., April 6, 1763 ; entered Yale Col- lege in 1782, and graduated in 1786. He was licensed to preach by the old Presbytery of Suffolk, L. I., in 1788, and was appointed to the churches at Connecticut Farms and Bottle Hill (now INIadison, N. J., the seat of the Drew Theological Seminary), and shortly after (Sept. 29, 1789) was ordained and installed as pastor at the lat- ter place. In the summer of 1801 he accepted an invi- tation to the church in Orange, " one of the largest and most influential in the state." Here he labored with great acceptance and success for more than thirty years. In 1818 he received the degree of D.D. from Alleghany College. In the disruption of the Presbyterian Church (1837), Dr. Hillyer sided with the Ncav School. " But, though he regarded the division as an miwise measure, it never disturbed his pleasant relations with those of his brethren whose views and action in reference to it differed from his own" (G.N. Judd,in Sprague's Annals'). He was a trustee of the College of New Jersey from 1811 to his death, and from 1812 until the division of the General Assembly one of the first directors of the theo- logical seminary at Princeton. This school, too, he re- garded to the last with undiminished interest. — Tuttle, (Rev. Samuel L.), History of the Presbyterian Church, Madison, N.J. p. 39 sq. ; Sprague, Annals of the Amer- ican Pulpit, iii, 533. (J. H. W.)
Himerius (l/j'tpioc), a celebrated Greek sophist and rhetorician, was born at Prusa, in Bithynia, A.D. 315. He received his education of Proreresius, whose rival he afterwards became. After travelling considerably in the East, he settled in Athens as teacher of rhetoric. He became very famous in his profession, having among his pupils Basil, Gregorj^ of Nazianzen, and other distin- guished men. The emperor Julian, during his visit at Athens, A.D. 355, attracted by his learning and eloquence, invited him to his court at Antioch, and made him his secretary' (A.D. 362). After the death of his rival, Pro- seresius, in A.D. 368, he returned to Athens and resumed his former calling. He became blind toward the close of his life, and died in a fit of epilepsy A.D. 386. Hime- rius was a pagan, but exceedingly kind towards the Christians. Of his works, only a part are now extant, — Lardner, Works ; Smith, Diet. Greek and Rom. Mythol. ii ; Pierer, Universal Lex. viii, 383 ; Hoefer, Nour. Biog, Genh'ale, xxiv.
Himerius, l>ishop of Tarragona, Spain, kno-mi by a letter which Avns addressed to him by Siricius, bishop of Rome (385-398), and in which tlic latter arrogates su- preme ecclesiastical authority, and seeks by flattery to gain Himerius's consent to his pretensions. See Hard, Condi, i, 848 ; J. A. Cramer, additions to Bossuet, iv. 597. — Herzog, Real-Enn/klop. vi. 98, 99. The Roman Cath- olic views may be seen inWetzcr luWelte, Ki7-chen-Lcx- ikon, V, 197 sq. See Siricius.
Himyarites (by the classics called Homerites or Homeirites), an Arabian peoi^le, claiming to be descend-
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ants of Himj'ar, a grandson of Saba, one of the mythic- al fathers ol the Arabians, who is said to have been a jirince in South Arabia about 3000 before Moham- med's time. Tliey established in that part of Arabia some very flourishing towns, including Saba and Aden (Athana), the former noted more especially from its mention in the Bible, and extended tlieir dominion nearly over the entire coast of South Africa. At the time of Constantine the Great this people inclined to Christianity, but in 529 they were subjected by the Ethi- opians, and were obliged to forsake their Christian faith. About seventy years later the Persians took the most important cities from the Himyarites, and in A.D. G2t) they were subjected to the jMoliammedans, and em- braced Islamism. Tlie Himyarites had a language of their own [see Arabic Language], the so called Him- yaritic, of which traces have lately been found in the ancient remains to which the Oriental scholar Gesenius, and, later, Eodiger, have given much study. Of late Osiander has undertaken this task, and apparently has been much more successful. The results of his investi- gations are found in ZeiUchrift der deutschen Morfjeitldnd. Gesellsch. (vol. x and xix, Lpz. 185G and 1865). — Brock- haiis, Conv.-Lex. vii, 929. See Jews.