UGO di STRASBURGO (RIPELIN). - Theologian and poet of the thirteenth century. Little is known of his life; his name occurs in documents of 1268 and 1296.
A Dominican in his native city, he probably studied in Paris. He was prior and taught in his convent at Strasbourg. He was a disciple of St. Alberto Magno, whose Neoplatonic orientation he followed. Attributed to him are a Commentarium in IV libros Sententiarum, Sermones varii, Quodlibeta, Quaestiones. Certainly his is the Compendium theologicae veritatis (Venice 1476), written ca. 1265, which for several centuries was the most widespread manual of scholastic theology; it had a great many editions and was already translated into German in the Middle Ages, and was attributed by some to St. Tommaso, by others to St. Bonaventura or to Ulrico di Strasburgo or especially to St. Alberto Magno, under whose name the first edition also appeared. - See pl. LXX.