UGO of Strassburgo (Ripelin). - Theologian and poet of the 13th century. Little is known of his life; his name appears in documents from 1268 and 1296.
A Dominican in his homeland, he probably studied in Paris. He was prior and taught in his convent in Strasbourg. He was a disciple of St. Albert the Great, following his Neoplatonic approach. Attributed to him are a *Commentarium in IV libros Sententiarum*, various *Sermones*, *Quodlibeta*, and *Quaestiones*. Certainly his is the *Compendium theologicae veritatis* (Venice 1476), written around 1265, which for several centuries was the most widely used manual of scholastic theology; it went through countless editions and was already translated into German in the Middle Ages. It was attributed by some to St. Thomas Aquinas, by others to St. Bonaventure or Ulrich of Strasbourg, or specifically to St. Albert the Great, under whose name the first edition also appeared. - See pl. LXX.