Hufnagel, Wiliii:i-:m FitiKnnicir, a German theo- logian, was born at Hall, Swabia, June 15, 1754, and ed- ucated at the universities of Altorf and Erlangen. In 1779 he was appointed professor extraordinary of phi- losophy at Erlangen, and in 1782 he was transferred to the chair of theology as regular professor. In 1788 he received the pastorate of the university church, and was made overseer of tlie scminarj' for preachers. In 1791 he removed to Frankfort-on-the-^Iain as preacher of one of the oldest chiu'ches of that city. He died Feb. 7, 1830. Hufnagel was distinguished both as a preacher and as a theologian, but he was especially at home in the Shemitic languages. His publications, aside from his Sermons (1791-96), are Variarum lectionum e Bibliis a Nisselio curatis excerptai-um sjtecimen (1777) : — Salomos hohes IJed qepri'ift, iibersetzt v. erldutei-t (1784) : — Nov. Biblioth. theol. t i, 1782-3) -.—Bearbeit. d. Schrifen d.A.T. nach ihrem Inhalf n. Zwerk (1784), in which he took a rationalistic position : — Hiob neu iibtrs. m. Anm, (1781);
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— Dissertatio de Psalmis pi-ophetias Messian. continenii- bus (2 pts. 1784). — Biograj)hie Unicersdle, xxvii, 428 ; Kitto, Bill. Cijdop. ii, 339 sq. ; During, Gelehrt. Theol. Deutschl. i, 767 sq. (J. H. W.)
Hug, JoHANN Leoniiaud, ail eminent German Ro- man Catholic theologian, was born at Constance June 1, 1765, and educated at Freiburg University. In 1789 he took priest's orders, and in 1791 was appomted professor of Old-Testament exegesis at his alma mater. In 1792 the New-Testament exegesis was added to the duties of his chair. To lit himself more thoroughly for his pro- fessional duties, he visited the great libraries and uni- versities of Central Europe. Though a Koman Catho- lic, he was too well acquainted with sacred criticism, and, like the celebrated Dr. Jahn, too impartial to be very greatly inlluenced in his vie^vs as a Biblical schol- ar and critic by his ecclesiastical connections. He wrote Erfitulunr/ d. Buchstahenschrift (Ulm, 1801) : — Einleitung in d. Schriften d. Neuen Testaments (Stuttg. 1808, 2 vols. ; 4th ed. 1847), This work, in which he attempts to vin- dicate and sustain the genuineness of all the books com- monly regarded as canonical, has been translated into French and English (^Introduction to the New Testament, by "Wait, Lond. 1827, 2 vols. 8vo; far better by Fosdick, Andover, !Mass., 8vo), and is considered one of the ablest works of the kind. Untersuchunrjen iiber den Mythus d. heriihmtesten Volker d. alten Welt (Freib. \S\-2):—Ueher d. Ilohe Lied (ibid. 1813-1818) :— Z)e conjnrjii Christinni vinculo indissoluhili comment, exeget. (ib. 1816), in which he took ground against civil marriages : — Katechismus (ib. 1836) : — De Pentateuchi versiotie A lexandrina com- ment, (ib. 1818) : — GutacJiten iiber d. Leben Jesu von D. F. Strauss (ib. 1840-1844, 2 vols.). Hug was also one of the editors, with Hirscher (q. v.) and others, of the Frei- burger Z kitsch rift fiir Theologie (Bonn, 1839-42). See INIaier, GnUichlnl^smh- anf ling (Freiburg, 1847) ; Reul- Knci/kiiip.f. d. Katlinl. Dentschland, v, 518 sq. ; Herzog, Real-Kac>ikUipiidie, xlx, 058 ; Chambers, Cijdopcedia, v, 449 sq. ; Kitto, nihl. Cijrhp. ii, 340 ; Ilaag, IHst. d. Dog- mas C/ire'.i,^ 112; We^vm^r, Geschichte d. KatJiolischen Theol. p. 527 sq. ; Hocfer, Kouv. Biog. Gener. xxv, 400. (J. H. W.)
Hugg, Isaac, a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Gloucester, now Camden County, New Jersey, about 1814. But little is known of his early life. He was converted in 1841, licensed to preach about 1844, and joined the New Jersey Conference in 1845. Thencefor- ward he filled witli zeal and efficiency the several posi- tions assigned him, being in many places eminently use- ful. On Rome and Wantage Circuit, on CedarviUe charge and elsewhere, he had extensive and powerful revivals of rehgion, and founded the first Methodist society at the village of Cranberrv, N. J., consisting at first of sev- en members, which, before the year closed, increased to fifty. About 1855, while laboring on Vernon Circuit, he had his hip dislocated bj^ a fall from his carriage, which caused him a great deal of suffering, and in tlie spring of 1864, being pressed by increasing affliction, he was obliged to take a superannuated relation, and settled at Pointville, in Burlington Comity. Here he labored as he had ability, being greatly beloved by the people. He died suddenly, while preparing to re-enter the active work of the ministry, April 5, 1866. " Hugg was em- phaticallj' a good man : the poor knew well how to prize him, and the children everj'where loved him. He was a good preacher, and, when health permitted, a faithful pastor." — Xeiv Jersey Conf. Minutes, 1867.
Hugh. See Hugo.
Hughes, George, B.D., an English Nonconformist, was linni ill Sduiliwark in 1603, and educated at Corpus Chrii^ti Vi lUvgf, < )xford. He became fellow of Pembroke College, then lecturer at AUhallows, London, and after- wards minister of Tavistock. During the Rebellion he obtained the living of St. A.ndrew's, Plymouth, but was ejected for nonconformity in 1662. He died in 1667. Hughes was a divine of good natural capacity and learn-
ing, and an exact critic for his time. His principal works are : An Analytical Fxposition of the vj?tole Book of Genesis, and of the first twenty-three Chapters of Ex- odus, wherein the various readings are observed, etc. (1672, fol.) : — Aphorisms, or Select J'rojjositions of the Scrip- tures, shortly determining the Doctrine of the Sabbath (1670, sm. 8vo). — Darling, Cyclopiadiu Bibliogrcqihica, i, 1568.