HERMIAS, her'mi-as: The unknown author of a Christian tract of the second or third century. In thirteen partly worthless manuscripts there is pre served the apologetic and polemic treatise called " A Satire on the heathen philosophers by the phi losopher Hermias," the real author and the date of which is disputed. According to most authorities, the tract belongs to the age of the great apologists (180-250); although Diels, Harnack, and others believe it to be a forgery, belonging to the fifth or sixth century. But the former view is sustained by a detailed comparison with the pseudo-Justin Martyr's Cohortatio ad Grams (ANF, i. 273-289), which used the "Satire" and perverted it. The document castigates, not without a certain cleverness, yet with cheap wit and an absence of deeper understanding, the conflicting assertions of the philosophers on the subject of the human soul, of God and the world; and especially with reference to the elements of matter.

G. Krüger.

Bibliography: Editions are by W. F. Wenzel, Leyden, 1840; J. C. T. Otto, Jena, 1872 (in Corpus apologetarum Christianorum); CC H. Diele Doxographi Grad, pp. 259-263 849-658 Berlin, 1879. Consult: Harnack, Geschichte, i. 782-783, ii. 2, pp. 198-197; idem, Dogma, u. 198; W. Gaul, Die Abfaseunpeverhaltniese der pseudojustiniSchen Cohortatio ad Gracos, Berlin. 1903; A. F. di Pauli, Die Irrisio dea Hermias, Paderbom, 1907; Neander hristian Church i. 873; Schaff, Christian Church, ii. 741-742; Ceillier, Auteurs sacrés, vi. 332-333; Krüger, History, pp. 137-138.

HERMINJARD, 13,r"man"zhal', AIME LOUIS:

Swiss Reformed; b. at VSvey (11 m. ex.e. of Lausanne) Nov. 7, 1817; d. at Lausanne Dec. 11, 1900. He was educated at Lausanne, and, after being a teacher in Russia, France, and Germany for several years, resided first at Geneva and later at Lausanne, dividing his time between teaching and historical and bibliographical researches. After thirty years of labor he began to publish the correspondence of the French Reformers and carried it down to 1544 under the title Correspondance des réformateurs dans les pays de langvz franVaise recvzillie et publiEe avec d'autrea lettres relatives d la réforme et des notes historiques et biograPhiques (9 vols., Geneva, 1866-97). Many of the letters are printed for the first time, and all of them are carefully collated and furnished with copious notes, which render the edition invaluable. It is one of the monumental works of French Protestant scholarship. That it could not have been carried at least down to the death of Calvin is a calamity.