Johann Huber (publicist)

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Johann Nepomuk Huber (pseudonym Janus ; born August 18, 1830 in Munich , † March 20, 1879 in Munich) was a German publicist and philosopher. After graduating from high school in 1850, Huber studied theology and philosophy at the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , completed his habilitation as a private lecturer in 1854 and became an associate professor in 1859 and a full professor of philosophy in 1864.

As a philosophical writer, he has made his way through the writings:

  • On free will (Munich 1858),
  • The idea of ​​immortality (Munich 1864, 2nd edition 1865),
  • The philosophy of the church fathers (Munich 1859),
  • Studies (1867) and the monograph
  • Johannes Scotus Eriugena (1861) made famous.

The penultimate script was placed on the index in Rome and, since Huber rejected the request to revoke it, Catholic theology students were prohibited from attending his lectures.

Huber started the fight against Romanism and Jesuitism in the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung in 1867. Since he played a major role in the elaboration of the famous book The Pope and the Council by Janus (Munich 1869) and in the Roman letters published in the Allgemeine Zeitung during the Vatican Council , he has since been considered a pioneer of the Old Catholic movement, in whose spirit he wrote the pamphlets: The Papacy and the State (1870) and The Freedoms of the French Church (1871) and from then on spoke at the Old Catholic Congresses.

His work The Jesuit Order According to the Constitution and Doctrine, Science and History (Munich 1873) was immediately placed on the index in Rome.

Huber took part in the national survey with the work The Relationship of German Philosophy to the National Survey (Berlin 1871) in an approving manner, on the other hand in the flow emanating from the natural sciences through his writings:

  • The doctrine of Darwin viewed critically (Munich 1871),
  • The old and the new faith critically appraised (Nördlingen 1873),
  • The religious question ,
  • To the criticism of modern creation doctrines (both Munich 1875) in a negative sense.

He also published:

  • The proletarian, for orientation in the social question (Munich 1865)
  • Small writings (Leipzig 1871)
  • Pessimism (Munich 1876)
  • Research into matter (1877)
  • On the philosophy of astronomy (1878)
  • The memory (1878)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leitschuh, Max: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vols., Munich 1970–1976; Vol. 4, p. 50
personal data
SURNAME Huber, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Janus (pseudonym); Huber, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1879
Place of death Munich