Hermann
a German chieftain. The liberator of Germany from Roman dominion. He lived about 18 B. C.-21 A. D. He entered the Roman army to learn the military art and was made a Roman citizen with the name of Arminius. Returning to his people, he organized a revolt. In the year 9 A. D. he fell upon the Roman Varus in the Teutoburg Forest and defeated him with great slaughter. He succeeded in keeping the Romans on the west side of the Rhine. In 1846 the Germans completed a Denkmal or monument on the highest point in the forest near the scene of Hermann's great victory. The base is an arched structure 100 feet in height. A heroic statue of Hermann in bronze stands on this substructure. The figure is 56 feet high, the point of his sword rises 30 feet above the top of the helmet, so that the total height of the monument is 186 feet. An interior gallery commands a magnificent view of the surrounding country. The exact site of the battle is not known. Naturally the name of Hermann is a great one among the Germans. Several monuments have been erected to his honor in the United States . One is at New Ulm, Minnesota.
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Hermann and Dorothea
a pastoral poem by the German Goethe, published in 1797. The poem is epical in character, and is sometimes classed as a domestic epic. It contains about 2,000 lines. The scene is laid in Germany, in Goethe's own time.
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Hermannstadt
a Transylvania, 370 It consists of an upper and a lower miles S. E. of Pest. town, the walls formerly surrounding which have only , towers, and bastions recently been stadt is the seat of a Greek archbishop demolished. Hermannand of a "Saxon" university. The fine Bruckenthal palace contains a picturegallery, numismatic, antiquarian, and mineral collections, and a library of 30,- 000 volumes. Tanning, wax-bleaching, and the making of cloth, paper, candles, sugar, and hats are carried on. Hermannstadt was originally the seat of a German colony, founded in the reign of Gesa II. (1141-1161), and was at first called Villa Hermanni. It endured several sieges from the Turks (1438 and 1442), as well as one from the followers of John Zapolya (1526). It also suffered at the hands of Gabriel Bathori in 1610, and again from both combatants during the Russo-Hungarian War of 1849. Pop. about 25,000.
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Herminius
A valiant Roman who defended the bridge with Cocles against the army of Porsenna. Lord Macaulay, in his noble prem Horatius , alludes to him as one of the dauntless three who defended the bridge against the host of Porsenna: "And out spake strong Herminius, Of Titian blood was he, 'I will abide on thy left side, And keep the bridge with thee." 2026 Editor's Note: The historical Herminia gens was a patrician family that appeared at the very beginning of the Roman Republic. Titus Herminius Aquilinus is recorded as holding the consulship in 506 BC, though the family largely disappeared from historical records by the mid-fifth century BC. (Ed: BR 2026-06-20)
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Hermione
A daughter of Menelaus and Helen. She was privately promised in marriage to Orestes , the son of Agamemnon , but her father, ignorant of the engagement, gave her hand to Pyrrhus , the son of Achilles , whose services he had experienced in the Trojan war.
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Hermitage Castle
(See Haunted Houses .) Herne, J.: A medium who was associated with Charles Williams (q.v.) during a part of the latter's career and who afterwards practised on his own account. Materialisation was a special feature of his séances. And Miss Florence Cook held her first materialisation séance in conjunction with Herne. He was one of the mediums present on the occasion of Mrs. Guppy's famous transit, and was himself on one occasion transported in like manner.
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Hermodorus
A philosopher of Ephesus who is said to have assisted, as interpreter, the Roman decemvirs in the composition of the ten tables of laws which had been collected in Greece. 2026 Editor's Note: While this text identifies Hermodorus as an interpreter for the Roman decemvirs, he was also an original member of Plato's Academy who was present at the death of Socrates. He is credited with circulating and selling the works of Plato in Sicily, effectively acting as an early distributor of Socratic and Eleatic philosophy. His own lost writings included titles such as On Plato and On Mathematics. (Ed: BR 2026-06-21)
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Hermosillo
a capital of the Mexican State of Sonora, in a fertile plain on the Rio Sonora, 50 miles N. of Guaymas. It has a mint and other government buildings, a bank of issue, sawmills, distilleries, and shoe and furniture factories, and a large export trade in wheat and wine. Pop. about 15,000.
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Hernia
the protrusion of some portion of the intestinal canal, or, in a more general sense, of any organ or part of an organ, from its natural place. It may arise from over-exertion, from a blow, etc. There are many varieties of hernia, as, the diaphragmatic, the enterovaginal, the mesenteric, the mesocolic, omental, perineal, the femoral, etc.; the most common of all is the inguinal, occurring in the groin. It may be direct or internal and oblique or external. When a hernia cannot be reduced, and, above all, when it becomes strangulated, it is apt to terminate in gangrene and death.
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Hero
A beautiful girl of Sestos, greatly beloved by Leander , a youth of Abydos . The lovers were greatly attached to each other, and often in the night Leander swam across the Hellespont to Hero in Sestus, till on one tempestuous night he was drowned, and Hero in despair threw herself into the sea and perished.
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Hero and Leander
in Grecian legend, a maiden and her lover whose names are always mentioned together. Hero lived in the town of Lesbos, on the Thracian coast, and was a priestess of Aphrodite. Leander lived in Abydos on the coast of Asia. Since Hero was a priestess her parents regarded her lover with disfavor. Every night Leander swam the Hellespont to visit Hero, who placed a light in a high tower to guide him as he swam across the strait. One stormy night the light went out. Leander was drowned. Hero looking from the tower saw his dead body as the waves rolled it to the shore. She cast herself from the tower in despair and perished in the sea. It was at one time regarded as impossible for a man to swim the Hellespont, but Lord Byron proved it possible by doing it himself. He has told the story of Hero and Leander in the Bride of Abydos. Schiller, Moore, and other poets have made use of this story in their writings. The night-wind is moaning with mournful sigh, There gleameth no moon in the misty sky, No star over Helle's sea; Yet, yet there is shining one holy light, One love-kindled star through the deep of night, To lead me, sweet Hero, to thee. --Moore.
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