HUBERT, KONRAD: Friend and assistant of the Strasburg Reformer Butzer; b. at Bergzabern (8 m. s.w. of Landau) 1507; d. in Basel Apr. 23,1577. He was the son of an artisan, and at twelve years old went to the Heidelberg school. In 1526 he was in Basel, where he became convinced of Evan gelical truth. Œcolampadiw, shortly before his death in 1531, recommended the young man to Butzer, whose assistant he became in Strasburg, not only in the ministry, but also in his literary work. After Butzer left Strasburg (1549) evil times came for Hubert. The Lutheran theologians, with Marbach at their head, gradually deprived him of his offices (1562-75), and he finally retired alto gether from public life. In 1572 he edited the Strasburg hymn-book and composed some hymns. His last years were spent upon an edition of Butzer's works. Grindat, archbishop of Canterbury, was active in procuring him such as were written in England. But unfavorable circumstances delayed the work; of the proposed ten volumes only one was published, which contained especially the wri tings published in England but unknown in Germany, and is therefore known as "Tomus Anglicanus" (Basel, 1577).

(Paul Grünberg.)

Bibliography: W. RShrich, Miaheitungen Gus der Geschichte

de- esangelischen Kirche des Blaaew, iii. 245-274, Strasburg, 1855; J. W. Baum, Capito and Buts-, pp. 586-589, Elberfeld, 1880; F. W. Cullmann, Ehrengedachtnis Konrad Hub-ts, Strasburg, 1882; ADB. riii. 281-283.

HUC, tic, EVARISTE REGIS: French Roman Catholic missionary; b. at Toulouse Aug. 1, 1813; d. in Paris Mar. 31, 1860. He studied at Toulouse, joined the Congregation of St. Lazarus at Paris, and went to China as a missionary in 1839. After working in the southern provinces for a time, he proseeded to Peking, and eventually settled in the Valley of Black Waters, or He Shuy, to the north of Peking and just beyond the Great Wall. Late in 1844, accompanied by Joseph Gabet and a Tibetan convert, he set out upon his remarkable journey of exploration through Tibet. He reached Lhasa Jan. 29, 1846, and was in a fair way to establish an important mission there when the Chinese ambassador interfered and bad Hue and Gabet conducted back to China. Broken in health, he returned to Europe in 1852. Hue was the author of three works that have justly enjoyed great popularity: Souvenirs d' unvoyage darts la Tartaric, le Thibet et la. Chime (2 vols., Paris, 1850; Eng. transl., Travels in. Tartary, Thibet, and China during . . . 1844-4B, 2 vols., London, 1851); L'Empire chinois (2 vols., Paris, 1854; Eng. transl., The Chinese Empire, London, 2 vols., 1855), which was crowned by the Academy; and Le Chnstianume en Chine en Tartarie et au Thibet (4 vols., Paris, 1857-58; Eng. transl., Christianity in China, Tartary, arid Met, 3 vols., London, 1857-58), which contains much valuable historical information. On account of the strangeness of the things described in the Souvenirs Hue was accused of fabrication; but the credibility of his account has been fully established by later researches.

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