Hagen, Martin

HAGEN, MARTIN. - Jesuit, exegete, brother of the astronomer Johannes Georg, b. at Bregenz (Austria) on 23 May 1855, d. at Valkenburg (Holland) on 12 July 1923. Professor of Hebrew and of Sacred Scripture, first at Ditton Hall (1891-95), then at Valkenburg (1895-1907) and finally a writer and contributor to the Cursus Scripturae Sacrae, founded and directed by Fr. R. Cornely.

To the Cursus, in fact, belong his principal works: Lexicon biblicum (3 vols., Paris 1905-11); Atlas biblicus (ibid. 1907); the 6th, 7th, 8th updated and completed edition of Fr. Cornely's Compendium introductionis historicae et criticae in utriusque Testamenti sacros libros (ibid. 1909, 1911, 1914) and the complementary volume: Realia biblica geographica, naturalia, archaeologica (ibid. 1914); the 2nd updated and completed edition of Fr. J. Knabenbauer's Commentarius in Prophetas minores (2 vols., ibid. 1924). To his exegetical works H. wished to add also some ascetical works, the fruit of his spiritual ministries: Das Herz Jesu, die Gnadenwonne an der Wende des Jahrhunderts (Kevelaer 1899; Italian trans. Vicenza 1901); Die göttlichen Tugenden (ibid. 1909); Die sittlichen Tugenden (ibid. 1910).

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