THE NEW SCHAFF-HERZOG
(7 parts, Nordhausen, 1863-69); and Konkordia, a periodical appearing at irregular intervals. A volume of Ausgewdhlte Schriften, ed. K. Munding, with biographical sketch, appeared at Berlin in 1894.
(Theodor Schafer.)
Bibliography: R. Elvers, Victor Aime Huber, 2 vols., Bremen, 1872-74; E. Jager, Victor Aime Huber, Berlin, 1880; ADB, xiii. 249.
HUBERINUS (HUBER), CASPAR: Writer of devotional books in the time of the Reformation; b., according to tradition, at Wilspach (a place otherwise unknown), Bavaria, Dec. 21, 1500; d. at Oehringen (33 m. n.e. of Stuttgart) Oct. 6, 1553. It is said that he became a monk, and at the beginning of the Reformation escaped from the monastery. In 1522 he was matriculated in Wittenberg and spent some years there. From about 1525 he appears in Augsburg, apparently as an assistant to Urbanus Rhegius (q.v.). His special gifts lay in the direction of devotional literature. When the Evangelical preachers had to leave Augsburg in 1530 Huberinus remained. As almost the only theological representative of Lutheranism, he labored in intimate union with a small circle in the interest of the Lutheran views, attacking especially the Zwinglians. As the Evangelical party of Augsburg was threatened with isolation by its attacks on the Romanists, the city felt the necessity of resuming negotiations with Wittenberg, and in 1535 sent Huberinus thither as mediator. As a consequence, Johann Forster, a strict Lutheran, was called to Augsburg, and the way was prepared for the Wittenberg Concord. For the strengthening of Lutheranism, Huberinus accepted an official position as assistant preacher to Wolfgang Musculus(q.v.). In 1544 he left Augsburg and followed a call as preacher to Oehringen. He surprised the friends of strict Lutheranism by accepting the Interim. In 1551 he was called back to Augsburg to introduce the Interim there, but after a few months was expelled from the city, with other advocates of the Interim, and returned to Oehringen. He wrote Ein trostlich Sermon von der Urstendi Chrisli den Schwachen im Glauben niitzlich zu lesen (Wittenberg, 1525); Trost aus der Schrifft fur eynen, der jnn angst vnd nott zu Gott vmb Hilffe schreiet (1525); Vom Zorn und der Giite Gottes, with a commendatory preface by Luther (1529) . Against Schwenckfeld and the Anabaptists in Augsburg he published Etlich Schluszrede vom gnadenbundt Christi, das ist vom Tauff vnd vom Kinderglauben (1529) and Siebenzig Schluss rede odder Puncte von der Rechten handt Gottes vnd der gewalt Christi (1530; often reprinted). In his official activity as assistant of Musculus he wrote Vom wahren Erkenntnis Gottes (1537), containing the principal contents of his instructions for young people; Das Streitbuchlein (1541); Katechismus mit vielen schonen Spruchen (1543) ; Der kleine Katechismus (1544), an epitome of the preceding; Viertzig kurze Predigten iiber den Katechismus fur die Hausv&ter (1550?, edited in Latin by Johann Lonicer, 1554). He also wrote a commentary on Jesus Sirach (Nuremberg, 1553) . His devotional writings were long popular and were reprinted as late as the eighteenth century. (T. Kolde.)
Bibliography: J. C. Wibel, in Fortgesetzte niltzliche Anmerkungen, pp. 16, 18, Weimar, 1738 sqq.; idem, Hohenlohische Kirchen- und Reformationshistorie, Onolzbach 1752 sqq.; H. Beck, Die Erbauungslitteratur der evangelischen Kirche Deutschlands, pp. 171 sqq., Erlangen 1883
HUBERT, KONRAD: Friend and assistant of the Strasburg Reformer Butzer; b. at Bergzabern (8 m. s.w. of Landau) 1507; d. in Basel Apr. 23, 1577. He was the son of an artisan, and at twelve years old went to the Heidelberg school. In 1526 he was in Basel, where he became convinced of Evangelical truth. (Ecolampadius, shortly before his death in 1531, recommended the young man to Butzer, whose assistant he became in Strasburg, not only in the ministry, but also in his literary work. After Butzer left Strasburg (1549) evil times came for Hubert. The Lutheran theologians, with Marbachat their head, gradually deprived him of his offices (1562-75), and he finally retired altogether from public life. In 1572 he edited the Strasburg hymn-book and composed some hymns. His last years were spent upon an edition of Butzer's works. Grindal, archbishop of Canterbury, was active in procuring him such as were written in England. But unfavorable circumstances delayed the work; of the proposed ten volumes only one was published, which contained especially the writings published in England but unknown in Germany, and is therefore known as " Tomus Anglicanus " (Basel, 1577). Paul Grunberg.
Bibliography: W. Rohrich, Mittheilungen aus der Geschiciite der evangelischen Kirche des Elsasses, iii. 245-274, Strasburg, 1855; J: W. Baum, Capito und Butzer, pp. 586-589, Elberfeld, 1860; F. W Cullmann, Ehrengedaehtnis Konrad Huberts, Strasburg, 1862; ADB, xiii. 261-263.
HUC, tic, EVARISTE REGIS: French Roman Catholic missionary; b. at Toulouse Aug. 1, 1813; d. in Paris Mar. 31, 1860. He studied at Toulouse, joined the Congregation of St. Lazarus at Paris, and went to China as a missionary in 1839. After working in the southern provinces for a time, he proceeded to Peking, . and eventually settled in the Valley of Black Waters, or He Shuy, to the north of Peking and just beyond the Great Wall. Late in 1844, accompanied by Joseph Gabet and a Tibetan convert, he set out upon his remarkable journey of exploration through Tibet. He reached Lhasa Jan. 29, 1846, and was in a fair way to establish an important mission there when the Chinese ambassador interfered and had Hue and Gabet conducted back to China. Broken in health, he returned to Europe in 1852. Hue was the author of three works that have justly enjoyed great popularity: Sou renin d'un voyage dans la Tartarie, le Thibet et la Chine (2 vols., Paris, 1850; Eng. transl., Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China during 181^-lfi, -
vols., London, 1851); L' Empire chinois (2 vols.. Paris, 1854; Eng. transl., The Chinese Empire, London, 2 vols., 1855), which was crowned by the Academy; and Le Christianisme en Chint en Tartarie et au Thibet (4 vols., Paris, 1857-58; Eng. transl., Christianity in China, Tartary, and Thibet, 3 vols., London, 1857-58), which contains much valuable historical information. On account of the strangeness of the things described in the Souvenirs Hue was accused of fabrication; but the credibility of his account has been fully established by later researches.