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fruits, vefTels of gold and filver, glafs, mufical inftru- 
.ments, &c. In reprefenting thefe, no one eyer carried 
farther the powers of imitation. His pictures were 
highly valued, and fold, even during his life, for allo=. 
nifhing prices; for, although the mere copying of inani¬ 
mate nature is an inferior department of the art, yet it 
is one of which all are judges ; and perfedtion in it will 
always command applaufe. The objedts he chofe had 
likewife intrinfic beauty,; and he grouped them with 
good tafte. The troubles of Holland in 1671 drove him 
to Antwerp, where he died in 1674.—His l'on Cornelius 
was a painter of confiderable merit, though not equal to 
his father. 
HEEMS'KERK (Martin), a painter of great emi¬ 
nence, termed the Dutch Raphael, born in 1499, at the 
village in Holland whence he takes his-name. His fa¬ 
ther difcovering in him an early propenfity to drawing, 
placed him firft with John Lucas of Leyden, and then 
with the celebrated Schorel at Haerlem. He made a 
rapid progrefs under this mafter; and, letting up for 
himfelf, acquired great reputation. He made a vifit 
to Italy, and abode three years at Rome, copying 
the remains of antiquity, and the bell produdtions of 
modern artifts. Returning to Holland, he fixed firft at 
Delft, and then at Haerlem. During the fiege of that 
city by the Spaniards in 1572, he retired to Amfterdam; 
but he incurred the lofs of many of his works in the 
pillage of Haerlemf whence they are become rare. He 
died in 1574. He poffeffed a ready invention, and prac- 
tifed in alntoft every department of the art. His works 
are chiefly in the churches and public buildings of Hol¬ 
land. Many of his defigns have been engraved. 
HEEM'STEDE, a town of Holland: three miles 
fouth of Haerlem. 
HEEP'EN, a town of Germany, in Weftphalia, and 
county of Ravenlberg: four miles north-north-eaft of 
Bielefeld. 
HEER'BRAND (James), a learned German Lutheran 
divine, born at Nuremberg, in 1521. He acquired his 
clafiical learning at Ulm, from whence he was fent, in 
*538, to the univerfity of Wittemberg, and placed un¬ 
der the tuition of Luther and Melandlhon. Having 
pafled his examination for the miniftry with great ap- 
plaufe, in 1544, he was appointed a deacon at Tubingen; 
where he feduloufly devoted himfelf to the ftudy of 
theological arid critical learning. In 1550, he was ho¬ 
noured with the diploma of dodlor of divinity by the 
univerfity of Tubingen; and in the following year he 
( was nominated one of the deputation of proteftant mi- 
nifters who were to attend the council of Trent; and he 
repaired to that city with the ambalfadors of the duke 
of Wirtemberg. In 1556, he was prevailed upon, by 
Charles marquis of Baden, to remove to Pfortzeim, 
where he was employed in fuperintending the eftablilh- 
ment of the Lutheran religion and difcipline throughout 
the dominions of that prince; but was foon induced to 
return to Tubingen, to fill the chair of theological pro- 
feflor in that univerfity. He was afterwards appointed 
pallor of Tubingen, and fuperintendant of the churches 
in the diftridl of that city ; and honoured with the titles 
of counfellor to the duke, and chancellor of the univer¬ 
fity. He died in 1600, in the feventy-ninth year of his 
age. Befides his Compendium Theologia, which was his 
principal work, he left behind him numerous diflerta- 
tions, fermons, practical pieces, controverfial treatifes, 
&c. in the Latin and German languages. 
HEE'RENBERG, a town in the kingdom of Holland, 
in the county of Zutphen: fifteen miles fouth-eaft of 
Arnhem. 
HEE'RINGEN, a town of Germany, inUpper Saxony, 
and county of Schwartzburg Rudolphftadt: fix miles 
fouth-eaft of Nordhaufen, and thirty-two north of Erfurt, 
HEFT,/, [from heave.~] Heaving; effort; 
May be in the cup 
A fpider fteep’d, and one may drink, depart. 
Vol, IX, N@. 387, 
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And yet partake no venom ; for his knowledge 
' Is not infedled : but if one prefent 
Th’ abhorr’d ingredient to his eye, make known 
How he hath drunk,' he cracks his gorge, his Tides, 
With violent hefts. Shakefpeare. 
[For haft.'] Handle.—His oily fide devours both blade 
and heft. Waller. 
HEFT, pret. of heave ; [ufed by Spenfer for] Threw 1 
The other part behind yet flicking fall 
Out of his headpiece Cambell fiercely reft, « 
And with fuch furie backe at him it heft, 
That making way unto his deareft life 
His weafand-pipe it through his gorget Cleft. Spenfer. 
HEF'TED, adj. Difpofed; as, tender-hefted, tenderly 
difpofed, &c. Shakefpeare. 
HE'GAI, or He'ce, [Heb. meditation.] Aman’sname. 
HEGAU', or Hegow', a name under which is com¬ 
prehended all that part of Germany, in Swabia, which 
borders on the Bodenfee, or Lake of Conftance. 
HEG'ENSDORF, a town of Germany, inWeftphalia, 
and bifliopric of P’aderborn : two miles fouth-fouth-eaft 
of Buren. 
HEGESIP'PUS, an hi dorian of the fecond century, 
and fuppofed to be born about the commencement of it. 
He was a Jew by birth; but afterwards he became a 
convert to the Chriftian faith. He came to Rome while 
Anicetus was bifhop, moll probably in 168, and conti¬ 
nued there till Eleutherius was chofen to that office, in 
177. According to the chronicle of Alexandria, he died 
in the reign of the emperor Commodus, about the year 
180. He was the firft author of an ecclefiaftical hiftory 
from the death of Chrift to the time in which he lived, 
which, Eufebius fays, contained a faithful relation of 
the apoftolic preaching, written in a Ample ftyle. Of the 
five books of which this work confided, there now re¬ 
main only fome fragments, preferved in Eufebius’s Ec¬ 
clefiaftical Hiftory, and one more in Photius’s Codex. 
To Hegefippus, likewife, has been aferibed A Hiftory 
of the Wars of the Jews, and the Deftrudtion of Jeru- 
falem, which has been often publifhed, and particularly 
at Cologne in 1559, with the notes of Gualterlis. It is 
alfo inferted in the Biblioth. Pair. 
HEGG'BACH, a princely abbey of Germany, in the 
circle of Swabia, faid to have been founded in the ele¬ 
venth century. The abbefs was aflefled in the matricula 
at fixteen florins, and taxed to the imperial chamber 
at fixteen rixdollars forty-fix kruitzers: twelve miles 
fouth of Ulm. 
HEGI'RA,/. [Arabic.] A term in chronology, dig¬ 
nifying the epocha, or account of time, ufed by the Ara¬ 
bians and rurks, who begin their computation from the 
day that Mahomet was forced to make his efcape from 
the city of Mecca, which happened on Friday, July 16, 
A. D. 622, under the reign of the emperor Heraclius.— 
See the article Chronology, vol. iv. p. 536, 539. 
HEI'BACH, or Heu'bach, a town of Germany, in 
the circle of Franconia, and county ofWertheim, fitu- 
ated on the Maine : twelve miles weft of Wertheim. 
HEI'CHERLOCH. See Haigerloch. 
HEPDANUS (Abraham), profelfor of divinity at 
Leyden, born at Frankenthal, in 1597. At an early age 
he was placed in the Walloon college at Leyden, where 
he diftinguifhed himfelf by his proficiency in the diffe¬ 
rent branches of academic learning, and particularly in 
theology. When he had finilhed his courfe of ftudies 
in the univerfity, he fpent two years in travelling for 
farther improvement, through Germany, Swiflerland, 
France, and England. About the year 1647, the pro¬ 
vince of Guelderland, having determined on the eftabli fit¬ 
ment of an univerfity at Harderwic, offered him the di¬ 
vinity profefforfhip, upon very advantageous terms. 
This offer he declined, in confequence of having equi¬ 
valent advantages fecured to him by the church of 
Leyden; and he was foon afterwards appointed to the 
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