Herman Hugo (9 May 1588 – 11 September 1629) was a Jesuit priest, writer and military chaplain. His Pia desideria, a spiritual emblem book published in Antwerp in 1624, [1] was "the most popular religious emblem book of the seventeenth century". [2] It went through 42 Latin editions and was widely translated up to the 18th century. [3]
Herman Hugo was born in Brussels. He studied philosophy and theology at the University of Louvain. He died of plague on 11 September 1629 at Rheinsberg. [4]