Catholic missionary bishop in India and the Phillipines. Born in Germany, Hurth emigrated to the United States in 1874, became a novice in the Congregation of Holy Cross in 1875, and served as an instructor of Latin and Greek at the University of Notre Dame from 1877 to 1879. Ordained a priest in 1880, he became president of St. Joseph Commercial College in Cincinnati until 1884, when he was appointed vice-president and (the same year) president of St. Edward's College in Austin, Texas.

From 1894 until 1909 he served as the second Bishop of Dacca in the Bengal region of India (later Bangladesh); when he resigned for reasons of health, he became Titular Bishop of Milopotamus in partibus infidelium. In 1913 he agreed to serve as Bishop of Nueva Segovia in the Philippines. In 1926 he became Titular Archbishop of Bostra. He died in Manila.