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See also:HUBER, See also:LUDWIG See also:FERDINAND (1764–1804) , See also:German author, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 14th of See also:September 1764, the son of See also:Michael Huber (1727–1804), who did much to promote the study of German literature in See also:France. In his See also:infancy See also:young Huber removed with his parents to See also:Leipzig, where he was carefully instructed in See also:modern See also:languages and literature, and showed a particular inclination for those of France and See also:England. In Leipzig he became intimate with See also:Christian Gottfried Korner, See also:father of the poet; in See also:Dresden Huber became engaged to Dora Stock, See also:sister of Korner's betrothed, and associated with See also:Schiller, who was one of Korner's stanchest See also:friends. In 1787 he was appointed secretary to the Saxon See also:legation in See also:Mainz, where he remained until the See also:French occupation of 1792. While here he interested himself for the welfare of the See also:family of his friend Georg See also:Forster, who, favouring republican views, had gone to Paris, leaving hi,* wife Therese Forster (1764–1829) and family in destitute circumstances. Huber, enamoured of the talented young wife, gave up his See also:diplomatic See also:post, See also:broke off his engagement to Dora Stock, removed with the Forster family to See also:Switzerland, and on the See also:death of her See also:husband in 1794 married Therese Forster. In 1798 Huber took over the editorship of the Allgemeine Zeitung in See also:Stuttgart. The newspaper having been prohibited in See also:Wurttemberg, Huber continued its editorship in See also:Ulm in 1803. He was created " counsellor of See also:education " for the new Bavarian See also:province of See also:Swabia in the following See also:year, but had hardly entered upon the functions of his new See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office when he died on the 24th of See also:December 1804.
Huber was well versed in See also:English literature, and in 1785 he published the See also:drama Ethelwolf, with notes on See also:Beaumont and See also:Fletcher and the old English See also:stage. He also wrote many dramas, comedies and tragedies, most of which are now forgotten, and among them only Das heimliche Gericht (r79o, new ed. 1795) enjoyed any degree of popularity. As a critic he is seen to See also:advantage in the Vermischte Schriften von dem Verfasser See also:des heimlichen Gerichts (2 vols., 1793). As a publicist he made his name in the See also:historical-See also:political See also:periodicals Friedenspr¢liminarien (1794-1796, 10 vols.) and Klio (1795-1798, 1819).
His collected See also:works, Sdmtliche Werke seit dem Jahre z8o2 (4 vols., 1807–1819), were published with a See also:biography by his wife Therese Huber. See L. Speidel and H. Wittmann, .Bilder aus der Schiller-Zeit (1884).
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