Hughes, Joseph, D.D., an eminent Baptist divine, was bom in London Jan. 1, 1769. In 1784 lie became a member of the Baptist Church, and entered the Baptist College at Bristol, where he remained as a student till 1787. He studied also three years at Aberdeen, where he passed "SLX. in 1790. In 1791 he became classical tutor in the Baptist College ; 1792 to 1796 he was assist- ant minister at Broadmead Chapel, Bristol; and in 1796 ha became pastor of the Baptist Chapel, Battersea. Wlien the " Religious Tract Society" was formed' in 1799, he was chosen its first secretary, and he retained this office mitil his death, Oct. 12, 1833. His industry in official worlc was enormous, and a great part of the success of the Tract Society is due to his labors. He also took a large part in the formation of the British and Foreign Bible Society, and was its first secretary, re- taining the office until his death. His personal history is largely that of this great organization. See Leifchild, Memoir of the Rev. J. Ifur/hes (Load. 1834, 12mo) ; Jtibi- kc Volume of the Religious Tract Societt/ ; Owon, I/is- torij of the British and Foreign Bible Society ; Tirapson, Bible Triumj)hs (1853, 12mo).
Hugo, a friar of the order of the Minimi, and a doc- tor of theology, was born at Prato, near Florence, in the latter half of the 13th century. He w'as a man of re- markable austerity, and imposed upon himself the most severe mortifications. He died in Tartary after t)ie year ' 1312. Among his works, which remain in MS., arc a letter to the ]\Iinimi of Prato, a treatise De I 'ita Contem- platiaa, and I)e Perfectione Statuum.—UoefcT, Nouv. Bi- ogr. Generale, xxv, 451.
Hugo OF Amiens, or of Rouen, a distinguished Ro- man Catholic divine, was born at Amiens, France, Jo- wards the close of the 11th century, and was educated at Laon under the celebrated Anselm. He entered the Benedictine monastery of Clugny, and became prior of the monastery of Limoges in 1113. On account of his great learning and uncommon talent he was transferred as prior to the monastery at Lewes, in England, and in 1125 was appointed abbot of Reading Abbey by Henrv T. tlie founder. In 1129 Hugo was elected archbishop of Rouen, over which see he presided until his death, Nov. 11, 1164. He was quite prominent iu the historj' of celibacy during his day. Whilo archbishop of Rouen,
he sought to convert an obscure sect in Brittany, in all likelihood a branch of the Petrobrussians, whose doc- trines were "a protest against tlie overwhelming sacer- dotalism of the period, by an elaborate denunciation of their tenets, among which he enumerates promiscuous licentiousness and disregard of clerical celibacy." In- deed, Hugo was distinguished among his conteniimra- ries not only as a theologian, but also as a stalcMoaii. "It was he who, in 1139, at the Council of W'inclioii r, saved king Stephen from excommunication by tlie 1-ng- lish bishops." He wrote Dialogi de Snmmo Bono Libri vii (published by Martene in liis Thesutir. Anecdotum, v, 895), a work of esjiecial interest Iwth to the theolo- gian and the philosopher on jjccount of the views which it sets forth on moral philosophy : — De llteresibus. print- eil by D'Achery as an appendix to the works of Guibert de Nogent, is a work levelled against the heretics of his day, and affording valuable materials on the history of the Church in the 12th century :—/^e Fide Catholinr, containing an explication of the Apostles' Creeil and the Lord's Prayer, jniblished bj^ Martene and Durand in their Thesmin's A m citnlnm, vol. v, and in their Vetc- rum Scriptdiiim ( '<>!/, c/io, vol. ix. See Schriickh, Kirch- engesch. xxvii, 409 sii. ; Lea, Hist, of Sacerdotal Citiba- c//, p. 372 s(j. ; Hoefer, Xoiiv. Biog. Gener. xxv, 439 sq. ; Gorton, Biog. Diet. s. v. ( J. H . W.)
Hugo OF Angoulkme flourished in the 10th centu- ry. As soon as he had become the incumbent of the see of Angouleme (Jlarch 21,973) he sought also to as- sume the temporal government over his diocese, and became entangled in controversies with count Arnold, the prince of that country, against whom he even waged war. It is thought that Hugo finally withdrew I'rom the bishopric, retired to the abbey of St. Cibard, and died in obscurity in 990. He is said to have left sev- eral works, but they have not yet come to light. — /list. Litt. de la France, vol. viii ; lloefer, Xouc. Biog. Gene- rale, xxv, 428.
Hugo of BESAxq-ON was born towards the close of the 10th century, and was ajipointed archbishop of Be- san(;;on, aii successor of archbishop Gaucher of Salins, in 1031. Immediately on assuming the charge of the see he dismissed the canons of St. Anatole of Salins, and gave this church to the monks of St.Benigne of Dijon; but he afterwards repented of the change, and reinstated the chapter of St. Anatole in 1048. He is said to have been an industrious prelate, and to have enjoyed the confidence of his pope and of his emperor. Under tlie emperor Henry III he was arch-chancellor. lie also assisted at the coronation of king Philip I of France. He died July 27, 1066.— Dunod de Carnage, IJistoire de Veglise de Besangon, i, 29 sq. ; Hoefer, Xour. Biog. Gen. xxv, 429.