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years he was called, through force of circumstances, to teach successively various other branches of ecclesias- tical science, but from 1863 to 1884 he occupied with- out interruption the chair of moral theology, adding thereto, during a period of thirteen years, the course of sacred liturgy.

After thirty-two years spent in teaching in Saint- Sulpice, he was sent in 1SS4 to the United States, hav- ing been appointed the first president of the newly erected theological seminary of Boston. .After fulfil- ling the duties of this post for five years, he was trans- ferred to the presidency of the graduate theological seminary connected with the Catholic University in Washington. This tlignity he also held foi- five years, his teaching being confined almo.st exclusively to lec- tures on ascetic theology. He was then recalled (1894) to St. John's Seminary, Boston, and passed there the .seven remaining years of his life as its presi- dent. At the end of the school year 1901 he was compelled, on account of rapidly declining health, to interrupt his labours for needed rest. Arrangements were made for him to spend the following winter at Hyeres in the south of France, but he died suddenlyon his way thither, at the age of seventy-two.

Dr. Hogan, while hardly to be called a specialist in any branch, was a scholar of great erudition. He took a lively interest in all topics, whether pertaining to ecclesiastical or to secular science, and was con- versant with the best literature bearing on subjects in these fields. He was endowed with that rare ability for imparting information to different mentalities which makes the ideal teacher, and as such his influ- ence was widely felt and much appreciated, especially in France, where for so many years those who were to achieve the highest distinction among the secular clergy received the benefit of his intellectual guidance. His was a keen, versatile, analj'tic mind, characterized by breadth of view as well as penetration, and thor- oughly ali\'e to the difficulties connected with all theo- logical and philosophical pi-oblems. His m.ethod was chiefly Socratic, free from dogmatism of tone, and he possessed m a rare degree the gift of being able to render interesting, at least to the more intelligent stu- dents, the discussion of even the driest and most ab- struse questions. One who had known him intimately for many years paid due tribute to his merits in an article in the "Homiletic Monthly", Dec., 1901, on Abb6 Hogan 's "Clerical Studies".

Though a scholar greatly gifted in the art of ex- pounding, Dr. Hogan gave little attention to writing and pubhcation. Except occasional articles contrib- uted to periodicals, his only published works are "Clerical Studies", which first appeared in the "Ec- clesiastical Review" (Philailelphia, 1891-95), and "Daily Thoughts". Both of these have been trans- lated into French. In the former, which merits a place among the liest clerical manuals, he covers the entire field of ecclesiastical science, treating each sub- ject in his own original, suggestive manner, from the practical as well as the theoretical standpoint. The latter is a book of short meilitations for the use of priests and seminarians.

The Am. Ecclciiaxtital Review (Philadelphia, Oct., 1901); The Messenger (New York, Oct., 1901): CalhoUe News (New York, Oct.. 1901); Pilot (Boston, Oct., 1901); Tablet (London, Oct., 1901), aies.

Ja.\ies F. Driscoll.

Hogan, John Joseph. See Kansas, Diocese of.

Hogg, John. See Hill, Richard.

Hohenbaum van der Meer, Moritz, a Benedic- tine historian; b. at Sporl near Belgrade, 25 June, 1718; d. at the monastery of Rheinau, near Schaff- hausen in Switzerland, 18 December, 1795. He en- tered Rheinau as student in 1730, made vows there in 1734, was ordained priest in 1741, became professor in 1744, was prior of the monastery from 1758 to 1774,

keeper of the monastic archives from 1759 till his death, and secretary of the Swiss Benedictine Congre- gation during the last nineteen years of his life. The episcopal See of Lausanne which was offered him by the pope he refused to accept. His numerous writings (seventy-six separate treatises) are for the most part historical studies on his own and other monasteries. He also wrote a history of the Swiss Benedictine Con- gregation (1602-17S5), a life of St. Fintan, and some ascetical treatises. Though his historical works give evidence of careful researches and of a rare critical acumen, only a few of them have found their way into print. They are nearly all written in Latin and fill fifty-nine folio and twenty-three quarto volumes. Most of these works, together with fifty-two volumes of epistolary correspondence are at present in the cantonal liljrary of Zurich.

Mayer in Freiburger Diucesan-Arehiv, XT (1877), 1-34. with a supplement by Bader. /6i"rf., XII (187S), 1S9-201 ; von Wtss, Geschichte der 'Historiographie in der Schweiz (Zurich, 1895), 300 sq.

Michael Ott.

Hohenburg' (Odilienberg; Altitona), a sup- pressed nimnery, situated on the Odilienberg, the most famous of the A'osges mountains in Alsace. It was founded about 690 by St. Odilia, who also was its first abbess. On the eastern slope of the Odilienberg she built a hospice, called Niedermiinster or Nieder- Hohenburg, which afterwards became a convent for ladies of nobility and was destroyed by lightning in 1572. Originally Hohenburg seems to have been occu- pied by Benedictine nuns who were replaced by can- onesses in the eleventh century. In the first half of the twelfth century it began to decline, but its dis- cipline was restored by Abbess Relindis of Bergen near Neuburg on the Danube, who became Abbess of Hohenburg about 1140. During her rule Hohen- burg became famous for its strict discipline as well as the great learning of its nuns. She was succeeded in 1167 by Herrad von Landsperg under whose rule the fame of Hohenburg continued to increase. She built the Premonstratensian monasterj- of St. Gorgon on the slope of the mountain in 1178, and the Augus- tinian monastery of Truttenhausen at its foot. Her- rad is the author of " Hortus deliciarum", a collection of short treatises on theology, astronomy, philosophy, and other branches of learning. It also contained some original Latin poems with musical accompani- ment, and some beautifid drawings. The work was destroyed at the conflagration of the Strasburg hbrary in 1870. When Hohenburg perished by fire in 1546 some of the nuns returned to their parents, others be- came Protestants and married. In 1661 Hohenburg was rebuilt and occupied by Premonstratensians. During the French Revolution it was confiscated by the Government and sold as national property in 1791. Mgr. Riiss, Bishop of Strasburg, purchased the build- ings in 1853 for his diocese.

SiLBERMANN, Fiesr/irribitng von Hohenburg (Strasburg, 1781 and 1835); Forrer. Der Odilienberg (Strasburg, 1899): Rein- HAHD, Le mont Sle-Odile et sea environs (Strasburg, 1888).

Michael Ott.

Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfiirst, Alex- ander LkoI'oid, titular Bishop of Sardica, fa- mous for his many supposedly miraculous cures, b. 17 .\ugust, 1794, at Kupferzell in Wurtemberg; d. 14 November, 1849, at Voslau near Vienna. He studied the humanities at the Theresianum in ^'ienna, 1804-8, and at Berne, 1808-10; philosophy at Vienna, 1810-12; theology at TjTnau in Hungan', 1812-14, and at Ellwangen,"l814-15. On 16 September, 1815, he was ordained priest and at once devoted himself to the care of souls first at Stuttgart, then at Munich. In October, 1816, he went to Rome where he had Uttle difficulty in justifying himself against the ac- cusations of having administered the sacraments in the German language and of belonging to the Bible