HOOGHT, EVERARDUS VAN DER: Dutch Biblical critic and Orientalist; b. after 1650; d. at Nieuwendam (2 m. n.e. of Amsterdam), Holland, in July, 1716. He studied theology at Amsterdam, became minister at Marken, North Holland, in 1669, and pastor of the Reformed Church at Nieuwendam in 1680. During his long ministry here he devoted himself largely to linguistic and Biblical studies. He published several grammatical works, a GreekLatin lexicon to the New Testament, and edited the Hebrew Bible (Amsterdam, 1705). It is for this last work that he is remembered. His text has been frequently reprinted and widely used.

Bibliography: E. Riehm, Einkitung in das A. T., pp. 471 sqq., Halle, 1890.

HOOGSTRATEN, h6g'stra-ten (HOCHSTRATEH), JAKOB VAN: Inquisitor; b. at Hoogstraten (20 m. n.e. of Antwerp), Belgium, 1454; d. at Cologne Jan. 21, 1527. He studied at the universities of Louvain (M.A., 1485) and Cologne (Th.D., 1506), entered the Dominican order in 1485, and in 1507 became prior of the order at Cologne and professor of theology at the university. In 1508 he was made inquisitor of the provinces of Cologne, Mainz, and Treves. He is known for his opposition to Luther, Erasmus, and other humanists; and particularly for the part he took against Johann Reuchlin (q.v.) in a controversy over the Jewish books. In 1513 he summoned Reuchlin to appear before him at Mainz, thus transcending his authority, as Reuchlin was a citizen of another state. In the end he lost his case and had to pay the costs of the proceedings. An appeal to Leo X. was unavailing, as the pope, though in sympathy with Hoogstraten, was unwilling to offend the humanists. This controversy was the occasion of the famous Epistolte obscurorum virorum (q.v.). Hoogatraten's works appeared at Cologne in 1526.

Bibliography: F. W. H. Cremane, De jambd HocluhaN vita et scriptie, Bonn, 1869; Meuser, in Zeitschrift fair. Wia s-cWt and Kunst, i (1844), 286-295; KL, vi. 1158- 1166; and see Rsucarrrr, Joasxx, and the literature there.

HOOK, WALTER FARQUHAR: Dean of Chichester; b. in London Mar. 13, 1798; d. at Chichester Oct. 20, 1875. He was educated at Winchester College and at Christ Church, Oxford (B.A., 1821; M.A., 1824; B.D. and D.D., 1837). He took orders in 1821 and spent the neat four. years as curate to his father at Whippingham, isle of Wight. In 1825 he was appointed to the perpetual curacy of Moseley, near Birmingham, and in 1827 also to the lectureship of St. Philip's, Birmingham. In 1828 he was appointed vicar of Holy Trinity, Coventry, where he remained till 1837, when he became vicar of Leeds. In the mean time he had become a royal chaplain,

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and in 1838 he preached before Queen Victoria the memorable sermon, Hear the Church, in which he maintained that the bishops of the Anglican Church trace their succession back to the apostles. During an incumbency of twenty years at Leeds he rebuilt the parish church at a cost of £28,000, erected twenty-one new churches, twenty-three parsonages, and about thirty schools, and transformed the city from a stronghold of dissent into a stronghold of the Church. In 1859 he was appointed dean of Chichester. He was a prominent exponent of High-church principles, and was subjected to considerable persecution on account of his friendship for the Tractarians. His more important works are: The Last Days of Our Lord's Ministry (London, 1832); Hear the Church (1838), a sermon of which over 100,000 copies were sold; A Church Dictionary (1842; 14th rev. ed., 1887); An Ecclesiastical Biography (8 vols., 1845-52); On the Means of Rendering More Efficient the Education of the People (1846); and Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury (12 vols., 1860-76). Many of his sermons were edited by his son, Walter Hook, under the title The Church and Its Ordinances (2 vols., 1876).

Bibliography: W. B. W. Stephens, Life and Letters of Walter Farquhar Hook, 2 vols., London, 1878; DNB, xxvii. 276-278.