Hormisdas

HORCHE, hdr'He, HEINRICH: Pietist and separatist; b. at Eschwege (26 m. ex.e. of Cassel), Hesse-Nassau, Dec. 12, 1652; d. at Kirchbain (8 m. e. of Marburg), Prussia, Aug. 5, 1729. He became deacon at Heidelberg in 1683. He was appointed court preacher at Kreuznach in 1685; became preacher at Heidelberg 1687; and in 1690 pastor and professor at Herborn, whence he was dismissed Feb. 15, 1698.

Horche's dismissal was the signal for an open outbreak of separatism in Hesse and Nassau. He organized private meetings, which were frequented by separatists and chiliasts from far and wide. For ten years he led an unsettled life, vehemently teaching and preaching in various places'. Expelled from Nassau for open resistance to the authorities, he betook himself to Hesse, but was put under arrest at Marburg, and after his discharge was again arrested at Cassel for creating disturbances. In 1701 he was allowed to return to Eschwege; and he now endeavored to realize practically the Philar delphian form of society (see LzAD, JANR). However, the members of the association, in particular the notorious Eva Von Buttlar (q.v.) with her following, being compelled to quit the country, Horche betook himself to Wesel, thence to Holland and England, and he contemplated emigrating to Pennsylvania. His wife being unwilling to follow him, he returned home. From 1703 his mental condition, which had caused apprehension, improved, and from 1708, apart from a brief sojourn at Mar-

burg, he lived quietly at Kirchhain until his death.

Carl Mirbt.

Bibliography: H. Hochhuth, Heinrich Horehe und die philadelphiathen Gemeinden in Hessen, G utereloh, 1876.

HORMISDAS: Pope 514-523. The Campanian Hormisdas ascended the papal throne July 20, 514, and was buried in St. Peter's Aug. 6, 523. After the Laurentian schism was healed (see SynxAcRus), he was chiefly interested in restoring the union with the Greek Church, broken since 484 (see Felix III.), but the refusal of the Emperor Anastasius I. to admit the condemnation of Acacius of Constantinople thwarted the negotiations. The pope did not attend the synod at Heraclea, which therefore adjourned (515). Hormiedsa was gratified to have Justin I. and his court patriarch, John, turn to Rome (518) and acknowledge the condemnation of Acacius, thus completing the union (Mar., 519). The pope declared the Theopaschite formula (see THEorAscHITas), which the emperor wished to see accepted by the Church, useless and dangerous (Epist., 137). Hormisdas ordered Dionysius Exiguue (q.v.) to finish a translation of the Apostolic Canons, and he also renewed the so-called Decretum Gelar sianum (see GmmLAsius I.). His briefs and memorials are found in MPL, lxiii. 367 sqq.; CSEL, xxxv.; and in A. Thiel, Epistolte Romanorum pontifimm, pp. 739-1006 (Braunsberg, 1868).

G. Krüger.

Bibliography: Liber pontificalis, ed. Ducheme, vol. i., Paris, 1886, ed. Mommsen, in MGH, Gest. pont. Rom., i (1898), 126-132; Jaffé, Regesta, i. 101-109; J. Langen, Geschichte der römischen Kirche, ii. 250-299, Bonn, 1885; G. Schnurer, in Historisches Jahrbuch, a (1889), 258-301; G. Pfailsobifter. Der 0etpotenkönig Theoderich . . . und die katholische Kirde, pp. 138-154, Münster, 1896; Hefele, Conciliengeschichte, vol. ii. passim; B. Platina, Lives of the Popes, pp. 118-120, London, n.d.; Milman, Latin Christianity, i. 137 sqq.; Bower, Pope, 310-324.