Holzhauser, Bartholomaus, founder of the or- der of Bartholomites (q. v.), was born at Langnau, Switz- erland, in 1613, and was brought up to his father's trade, shoemakiiig. By the exertions of some charitable per- sons he was admitted into an establishment for poor students at Neuburg, and afterwards studied philosophy at Ingolstadt under the Jesuits. Ordained priest in 1639, he conceived the idea of bringing back the priest- hood to the common life of tJie primitive Church. He founded at Tittmoningeu an institution intended to show the working of his system, and in 1640 founded a pre- paratory seminary at Salzburg in connection with it. He was successively curate of Tittmoningeu, Lciggen- tiial, and Bingen, where he died in 1658. His zeal and ascetic practices inclined him to revery and exaltation, so tliat he claimed to have visions ; and it is said that, having been visited by Charles II, then a fugitive, he predicted that a better future awaited him. He wrote, Consdtutiones cum exercitiis clericorum (Colon. 1662 sq. ; approved by the Chiurch of Rome in 1680) : — De humil- ■itate, together with a treatise On the Love of God (May- ence, 1663) : — Opusculum visiomini variarum. A biog- rapliy of Holzhauser, and a German translation of his works, were published by Clariis (Ratisbon, 1852) ; a French translation, with a biography, by Gaduel (Paris, 18G1). — Ersch und Gruber, Allg. Encyklojmdie ; Hoefer, Nour. Biog. Generale, xxv, 14 ; Herzog, Reul-Encyliop. i, 700. (J. N. P.)
Homage. See Adoration ; Dulia ; Fief ; Wor- SHir.
Homagium is a term applied in ecclesiastical lan- guage to the adoration (q. v.) which the clergy in the Roman Catliolic Church pay to the pope. — Fuhrmami, Handicurterb. d. RdUj. und Kirchengesch. ii, 333.
Ho'mam (Heb. Ilomam', D"2ln, discomfiture; Sept. Aifidv, Vulg. Homan), the second named of the two sons of Lotan, son of Seir the Horite (1 Chron. i, 39). In the parallel passage (Gen. xxxvi, 22) his name is %\Titten Hejiam (Heb. Ileymam', D^"^!!, Sept. A\p.av, Vulg. Jfeman). B.C. considerably ante 1904. Homam is assumed by Gesenius to be the original form (Thes. p. 385 fl). By Knobel {Genesis, p. 254) the name is com- pared with that of el-Homaima, a town now ruined, though once important, half way between Petra and Ai- lath, on the ancient road at tlie back of the mountain, which the Arabic geographers describe as the native place of the Abassides (Robinson, Res. ii, 572). (See La- borde. Journey, p. 207, A meime ; also the Arabic author- ities mentioned by Knobel.)
Hombergk zii Vach, Johann Friedeich, a learned jiurist, born at JIarburg April 15, 1073, was edu- cated at tlie University of Utrecht. He visited Eng- land, remaming for some time in London, Oxford, and Cambridge, and formed an intimate acquaintance with Richard Bentley. He died April 20, 1748. In addition to works on professional tojncs, he published, as the re- sult of his private study of the New Testament, Parer- ga Sacra seu interjn-etatio succincta tt nova quorundam textuum Xovi Testamenti (Ultraj. 1708, 8vo), and en- larged and improved under the title Parerga Sacra seu obsirrationes qucedam ad Novum Testamenium (Ul- traj. 1712, 4to). The criticisms contained in this work were attacked by Eisner, and defended by the author's son, ^Emilius Ludwig, also a jurist — J. II. Hombergk zu Vach Parerga sacra ab impugnationibus J. Elsneri vin- dicata (Marb. 1739, 4to), replied to by a relative of Eis- ner: Brevem Hombergianarum vindicurum adv.J.Els-
ncmm profiigationem (Berlin, 1742, 4to). " Hombergk takes a medium position between the Hebraists and the Purists." — Kitto, Bibl. Cyclop, ii, 319; Jucher, Gel. Lex. ii, 1086.
Homburg, Ernst CiiRisTOPir, a German liym- nologist, was born at IMiihla, near Eisenach, in 1005. His profession was that of lawyer. In his early years he wrote secular verses, but in his riper years lie was led to turn his thouglits to sacred themes, and tlie re- sults are some very beautiful liynnis, of which a few are found in the Liturgy and //ynni.f (or tlie use of the Prot- estant Church of the United Hrcthren (1836), and in the Christian Psalmist (1832). Tlie "]Man of Sorrows" is generally regarded as the best of these. He died June 21, 1081.— Wilier (Josiali), Our Hymns, their Au- thors and Origin (Lond. 1807, 12mo), p. 32.
Home, David, a French divine of Scottish birth, who tiourished towards the close of the 16th and tlie beginning of the 17th century, "was engaged by James I to attempt the impracticable task of uniting all the Protestant cUvines ui Europe in one system of religious beUef." The most important of his writings is Apolo- gia Basilica, seu Machiavelli Ingenium Ejcaminatum. He is also supposed to be the author of two satires against the Jesuits, entitled Le Conire Assassin, ou reponse a rApologie des Jesuites (1012, 8vo), and Uassassinat du Roi, ou rnaxinies du Viel de la Montagne Vaticane, etc (1017, 8vo). — A"o«i\ Did. Hist, i, 271; Gorton, Biogr, Diet. vol. ii.
Home Missions. See Missions.
Homer (T?-ri, cho'mer, a heap, as in Exod. viii, 14), a Hebrew measure of capacity for things dry, containing ten baths (Lev. xxvii, 10 ; Numb, xi, 32 ; Ezek. xlv, 11, 13, 14). In later writers it is usually termed a cor. See Measure.
The le'thek (T(??r?, vessel for pouring; Sept. »)jU(Kopoc, Vulg. coi-us dimifiius, Engl. Vers. " half a homer") was a measure for grain of half the capacity of the homer or cor, as seems probable from the only passage where it is mentioned (Hos. iii, 3). See Stud. u. Krit. 1840, i, 123.