Heinrich von Melk
German satirist of the twelfth century; of knightly birth and probably a lay brother in the convent of Melk, in Styria.
Heinrich von Veldeke
A medieval German poet of knightly rank; b. near Maastricht in the Netherlands about the middle of the twelfth century.
Heis, Eduard
German astronomer, b. at Cologne, 18 February, 1806; d. at Münster, Westphalia, 30 June, 1877.
Heisterbach
A former Cistercian monastery in the Siebengebirge near the little town of Oberdollendorf in the Archdiocese of Cologne.
Helen of Sköfde, Saint
Biography of the twelfth-century Swedish widow and martyr, killed in perhaps the year 1160.
Heliae, Paul
A Carmelite, opponent of the Reformation in Denmark, born at Warberg (in the Laen of Halland), about 1480; died after 1534.
Heliogabalus
The name adopted by Varius Avitus Bassianus, Roman emperor (218-222), born of a Syrian family and a grandnephew of Julia Domna, the consort of Emperor Septimus Severus.
Hell, Maximilian
Astronomer, b. at Schemnitz in Hungary, 15 May, 1720; d. at Vienna, 14 April, 1792.
Hello, Ernest
19th-century French philosopher and essayist. Article by Susan Tracy Otten.
Helmont, Jan Baptista van
Born at Brussels, 1577; died near Vilvorde, 30 December, 1644. This scientist, distinguished in the early annals of chemistry, belonged to a Flemish family.
Helpers of the Holy Souls, Society of the
A religious order of women founded in Paris, France, 1856, with the object of assisting the Holy Souls, by [Blessed] Eugénie Smet (in religion, Marie de la Providence).
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