HERIMANN CONTRACTUS. See Herman Contractus.

HERING, HERMANN JULIUS: German Lutheran; b. at Dallmin (a village of Brandenburg) Feb. 26, 1838. He was educated at the University of Halle (1858-62), and was then deacon at Weissensee, Thuringia (1863-69), archdeacon at Weissenfels-on-the-Saale (1869-74), chief pastor at Lützen (1874-75), and superintendent there (1875-78). From 1878 until his retirement in 1908 he was professor of practical theology at Halle, being also consistorial councilor after 1894 and university preacher after 1902. He has likewise been president of the society for the care of released convicts in the Prussian province of Saxony and the duchy of Anhalt since 1893, and in theology adheres to the orthodox school. He has written: Die Mystik Luthers im Zusammenhang seiner Theologie and in ihrem Verhältnis zur älteren Mystik (Leipsic, 1879); Doctor Pomeranus, Johannes Bugenhagen (Halle, 1888); Hilfsbuch zur Einführung in das liturgische Studium (Wittenberg, 1888); Heinrich Hofmann, sein Leben, sein Wirken und seine Predigt (in collaboration with M. Kähler, Halle, 1900); and Der akademische Gottesdienst in Halle von seiner Gründung bis zu seiner Erneuerung und der Kampf um die Schulkirche (Halle, 1908). He has also edited selected sermons of Berthold of Regensburg and A. Tholuck for Die Predigt der Kirche (xxi., xxviii., Leipsic, 1893-95), and since 1894 has been the editor of the Sammlung von Lehrbüchern der praktischen Theologie, to which he himself contributed Lehre von der Predigt (2 vols., Berlin, 1905).

HERKENNNE, HEINRICH: German Roman Catholic; b. at Cologne July 5, 1871. He studied at Bonn and Münster 1890-95, and since 1898 has been lecturer at the Collegium Albertinum, Bonn, also privat-docent for Old Testament exegesis at the university in the same city since 1903. He has

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written De vvterfa Latince Ecclesiastics capitxbus i.-xliii., una cum nods ex eiusdem libri translationibus Xthiopiea, Armeniaca, Copticis, Latina alters, Syro-Hexaplari depromptis (Leipsic, 1897); and Die Briefs zu Beginn des zweiten Maccabderbuches (Freiburg, 1903).

HERKLESS, JOHN: Scotch Presbyterian; b. at Glasgow Aug. 9, 1855. He was educated at the udiversities of Glasgow (187281) and Jena (1880); was tutor in English literature in Queen Margaret

College, Glasgow (1880-83); assistant, minister in St. Matthew's Parish Church, Glasgow (1881--83), and minister of the parish of Tannadice (1883-94). Since 1894 he has been regius professor of ecclesiastical history in St. Andrew's University. He has written Cardinal Beaton, Priest and Politician (Edinburgh, 1891); Richard Cameron (1896); The Church of Scotland (London, 1897); Francis and Dominic (Edinburgh, 1901); The Early Christian Martyrs (London, 1904); The College of St. Leonard (Edinburgh, 1905); and The Archbishops of St. Andrews, i. (1907), in addition to editing Hebrews in The Temple Bible (London, 1902).