HUBER, JOHANN NEPOMUK. — Catholic theologian and philosopher, born in Munich on 18 Aug. 1830, died there on 20 March 1879. From 1859 he was professor of philosophy and pedagogy in Munich.
In 1859 he published his celebrated work Die Philosophie der Kirchenväter, which was placed on the Index the following year. H. refused to submit and launched a campaign against Rome and the Society of Jesus through a series of articles, some anonymous, and collaboration with Döllinger in defence of the “Old Catholics.” Besides critical essays against Darwin, Strauss, Hartmann, Haeckel, and his early work Über die Willensfreiheit (1858), he wrote, in collaboration with Döllinger, Der Papst und das Konzil (1876, under the pseudonym Fanta), and the Römische Briefe (published under the pseudonym Quirinus in the Allgemeine Zeitung). Other works: Die Idee der Unsterblichkeit (1864); Der Jesuitenorden (1873); Die religiöse Frage (1875); Die ethische Frage (1875), etc.