Herman Hugo

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.