Hulda or Holda (the friendly, or benignant), a German goddess, known in the old legends as "Frau Holle," was originally the goddess of marriage and fe- cundity, worshipped and invoked by maids and wives; she sent bridegrooms to the former and children to the latter. She was represented as a beautiful white wom- an, surrounded by great numbers of children, in her fa- voriie haunts in the depths of the sea or the hearts of hills. She was also the patroness of agricultiu-e and domestic life, with its manifold employments. Later she appears in the fairy tales of Hesse and Thuringia — probably WTitten by Christian priests — as an old and ugly Avomaii, with a long nose, large teeth, coarse hair, and a companion of the wild and the roaming. But even in these last tales traces of kind and pleasant ways are left. — Piercr, Univ. Lex. viii, 480 ; Chambers, Cyclop, v, 453. (J.H.W.)
Hul'dah (Hebrew ChuLluh', n^lpH, weasel; Sept. "OAcav, Josephus 'OXr «, Ant. x, 4, 2), wife of Shallum, a prophetess, who, in the reign of Josiah, abode in that part of Jerusalem called the Mishneh, where the book of the law was discovered by the high-priest Hilkiah. B.C. 623. This prophetess was consulted respecting the denunciations which it contained. She then delivered an oracular response of mingled judgment and mercy; declaring the not remote destruction of Jerusalem, but promising Josiah that he should be taken from the world before these evil days came (2 Kuigs xxii, 14-20 ; 2 Chron. xxxiv, 22-28). Huldah is only known for this circumstance. She was probably at this time the widow of Shallum, a name too common to suggest any information: he is said to have been "keeper of the wardrobe," but whether the priestly or the royal ward- robe is uncertain. If the former, he must have been a Levite, if not a priest. See Harhas. As to her resi- dence rtDOaS, in the IMishneh, which the A. Y. renders "in the college," there is no ground to conclude that any school or college of the prophets is to be understood. The name means second or double ; and many of the Je^vs themselves (as Jarchi states) understood it as the name of the suburb lying between the inner and outer wall of Jerusalem ; perhaps i. q. " the lower city," or A era (q. v.). It is safest to regard it as a proper name denoting some quarter of Jerusalem about which we are not certam, and, accordingly, to translate in the Mish- neh, for which we have the precedent of the Septuagint, which has iv ry Maatva. The place of her residence is mentioned probably to show why she, being at hand, was resorted to on this urgent occasion, and not Jere-
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miah, who was thou probably away at his native town Anathotli, or at some more ilistant place. There were gates of the temple in the middle of the southern wall, caUed '■ tJie gates of Hiildah" (JMishna, tit. Middot/i, i, 3), which, if they were so named from any connection with the prophetess, may indicate her residence on Ophel. — Kitto. See Shallum ; Josiaii.
Huldericus, Augustknsis Episcopus, who flour- ished in 8(30, was a scholar of Adalbert, and descended i'rom the counts of Kilbury and Dillengen. He is known by his letter addressed to pope Nicholas ai^ainst the cel- ibacy of the clergy (Epistola de Cleri caliba(u). It was translated into English, and published about the time of the lii'liumatidu (in IGmo), without date. — Darling, Cyclop. JiibHiKjrapIiica; Clarke, Succession of Sac. Lit- erature, ii, 531.
Huldrich, Jean Jacques, a Swiss theologian, bom at Zurich in 1683, belonged to a family of which several members have distinguished themselves as theologians and philologists. See Huldericus. He devoted much of his time to the acquisition of Hebrew, and went to the universities of Holland to pursue a coiu-se of study in the Oriental languages. On his return to his native place in 1706 he was made pastor of the House of Or- phans. In 1710 he was appointed professor of moral science at the GjTnnasium of Zurich, His scholarship was of a superior order, and he was frequently solicited to accejit a professorship at the universities of Heidel- berg and Groningen. He died at Ziirich May 25, 1731. He published Historia Jeschua Nuzareni, a Judwis hlaspheme corrupta, ex nianuscripto hactenus inedito Ileb. et Lid., cum notis (Leyd. 1705, 8vo) : — Gentilis Ohtrecta- tor, sioe de calumniis yentUium in Judceos commentarius (Ziirich, 1744, 4to), a collection of sermons, etc.— Hoefer, Nouv. IJiog. Gen. xxv, 470 sq.
HtiH, Hope, a Methodist Episcopal minister, was boni March 13, 1763, in Worcester County, on the east- ern shore of Maryland. His early education was rather neglected, and he was apprenticed to a carpenter at Bal- timore. In this city he was converted, and entered the itinerancy in 1785. He was first appointed to Salis- bury, North Carolina. With the exception of a brief period sjjent in New England, his time was given to the introduction of Methodism in the Southern States. His last appointment was the Savannah Circuit, Geor- gia. In 1794 he travelled with' bishop Asbury, and lo- cated in 1795. He died October 4, 1818, at Athens, Ga. Hull possessed wonderful power over those who came within his influence, and was one of the most eloquent ministers in the Methodist Episcopal Church in his day. His piety was deep, and many were converted under his labors. During his active work in the ministry, he se- cured for himself a pretty good education, and was at one time able even to assume the duties of teacher of Latin. He was also one of the flrst and strongest sup- ports of the University of Georgia, which was founded during his residence at Athens. — Stevens, Memorials of Methudism, chap, ix ; Boehm, Histor. Ihininisc. p. 3G() ; Sprague, A nnals A mer. Puljnt, vii, 112 sq. (J. H. W.)