HUBY, JOSEPH. - Jesuit, apologist and exegete, b. at Châtelaudren (Brittany) on 12 Dec. 1878, d. at Laniscat (Brittany) on 7 Aug. 1948. He had as his professor of theology the great master and animator, Fr. Léonce de Grandmaison, who, having recognized his talents, gave the decisive direction to his life as a writer. He was first a professor of apologetics at Ore Place (Hastings [1913-22]), except for a brief interval (1917-19) spent at the journal Recherches de science religieuse; then the chair of New Testament exegesis was entrusted to him: he preceded this with a study trip to the Holy Land. In 1938 he passed definitively to the editorial staff of the journal Etudes, in Paris. In 1940 he was appointed consultor of the Pontifical Biblical Commission.
Prompted by Fr. de Grandmaison and with the collaboration of many, he published a volume of the history of religions: Christus (Paris 1911), which went through several editions; in 1924 he founded and directed until his death the collection Verbum salutis, for which he subsequently published: L'Evangile selon st Marc (Paris 1923), L'Evangile selon st Luc, in collaboration with Fr. A. Valensin (ibid. 1927), L'Evangile et les Évangiles (ibid. 1931), Le discours après la Cène (ibid. 1932), Les mythomanes de l'Union naturaliste (ibid. 1933), St Paul. Les épîtres de la captivité (ibid. 1935), St Paul. L'Épître aux Romains (ibid. 1940), St Paul. Première épître au Corinthiens (ibid. 1946), Mystique paulinienne et johannique (ibid. 1947); and moreover a very considerable number of articles and reviews on apologetic and scriptural subjects in Recherches de science religieuse, Etudes, Construire and other cultural journals.
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