HUFFCUT, Ernest William, American lawyer and educator: b. Kent, Conn., 1860; d. 1907. He studied law at Cornell University, being graduated in 1888. He then established a practice in Minneapolis, Minn. (1888-90), which he abandoned for the chair of law at Indiana University (1890-92). From 1892 93 he taught at Northwestern University, and from the last-mentioned year was dean of the Cornell Law School. He was appointed legal adviser to Governor Hughes at the beginning of his first term (1907), but shortly afterward he suffered a nervous breakdown and committed suicide. His publications include 'American Cases on Contract) (1884; 3d ed., 1913) ; 'Cases on the Law of Agency) (1896, with Woodruff), and 'Elements of Business Law) (1905), which is still a standard textbook on the subject.
HUG, hoog, Johann Leonhard, Roman Catholic scholar: b. Constance, 1 June 1765; d. Freiburg, 11 March 1846. After studying at Freiburg he was ordained in 1789. Two years later he received the appointment of _professor of Oriental languages and of the Old Testament and New Testament exegesis (from 1792) at Freiburg. Here he remained for the rest of his life, except for short sojourns at other univer sities where he participated in the organizing of new courses; and for travel on the Continent in pursuance of his labors. He attained great eminence as a political scholar, his works including 'Erfindung der Buchstatenschrift' (1801) ; Antiquitate Codicis Vaticanse Commentatio' (1810) ; (Das hohe (1813) ; 'De Pentateuchi Versione Alexandrina Corn mentatio) (1818) ; 'Gutachten Ober das Leben Jesu, kritisch bearbeitet von D. Fr. (1835), and his most widely-known in die Schriften des Neuen Testaments' (1808), which was translated into English and French. It is an important contribution to the
history of Bible versions. Consult Werner, K., 'Geschichte der Kathologischen Theologie in Deutschland' (Munich 1867).
HUGER, Francis Kinloch, American soldier: b. Charleston, S. C., September 1773; d. there, 14 Feb. 1855. He was a nephew of I. Huger (q.v.). His father, Maj. Benjamin Huger, was killed before the lines of Charles ton in 1779. He studied medicine in London and Vienna where he became acquainted with Dr. Eric Bollman whom he joined in an at tempt to rescue Lafayette (q.v.) from the dun geons of Olmiitz, his father having been the first to receive that general on his arrival in Georgetown in 1777. The enterprise resulted in their imprisonment for eight months. After his liberation he went to Philadelphia where he continued his medical studies at the University of Pennsylvania from which he received the degree of M.D. in 1797. A bronze tablet was erected in the Medical Hall of this institution in his memory in 1909. Huger became a cap tain in the United States army in 1798, was a colonel in the War of 1812 and served in both branches of the legislature of his State. Con sult Headley, P. C., 'Life of General Lafayette' (New York 1855) ; Lafayette, M. J., Marquis de, 'Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette) (3 vols., London 1837) ; Quincy, J., 'Figures of the Past) (Boston 1883) ; University of Pennsylvania, 'Memorial to F. K. Huger, etc.) (Philadelphia 1900) ; Varnhagen von Ense, K. A., keiten und Vernischte Schriften) (Vol. IV, Leipzig 1843).