Michael Huber (philologist)

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Michael Huber, painting by Ernst Gottlob, 1777, Gleimhaus Halberstadt

Michael Huber (* 1727 in Loitersdorf near Frontenhausen ; † April 15, 1804 in Leipzig ) was a German philologist , literary historian and writer.

Life

Nothing is known about his education, he lived in Paris from around 1750 in the milieu of the encyclopedists and later worked there as a language teacher and employee of the Journal étranger . In 1766 he moved to Leipzig, where he worked at the university as a language teacher with the title "Professor".

Michael Huber made a name for himself by translating contemporary German authors into French. Be highlighted Winckelmann's History of Ancient Art and works by Lessing , Klopstock , Wieland , Johann Peter Uz , Johann Wilhelm Gleim , Anna Louisa Karsch , etc.

His main work is the handbook for art lovers and collectors on the most distinguished engravers and their works (9 volumes, 1796–1804), which the Leipzig art dealer Carl Christian Heinrich Rost and, after his death in 1789, CG Martini translated from his French manuscript and edited slightly , published.

He is the father of Ludwig Ferdinand Huber .

Publications

  • Choix de poésies allemandes . 4 volumes, Paris 1766.
  • Notices générales des graveurs, divisés par nations, et des peintres rangés par écoles, précédées de l'histoire de la gravure et de la peinture depuis l'origine de ces arts jusqu'à nos jours, et suivies d'un catalog raisonné d ' une collection choisie d'estampes . JGI Breitkopf, Dresden / Leipzig 1787.
  • Directory of a collection of copper engravings by old and new masters, which were made after… [17] Oct. 1803 is to be auctioned. Rostische Kunsthandlung, Leipzig 1803.
  • with Carl Christian Heinrich Rost, CG Martini (ed.): Handbook for art lovers and collectors about the most distinguished engravers and their works. From the beginning of this art up to the present time; chronologically and in schools , 9 volumes, Zurich 1796–1804 ( digitized version ).
  • with Carl Christian Heinrich Rost, CG Martini (ed.): Manuel des curieux et des amateurs de l'art, contenant une notice abrégée des principaux graveurs, et un catalog raisonné de leurs meilleurs ouvrages; depuis le commencement de la gravure jusques à nos jours: les artistes rangés par ordre chronologique, et divisés par école. Gessner / Fuessli, Zurich 1797–1808 ( digitized version ).

literature

  • Rudolf Elvers , Theodor Süpfle:  Huber, Michael . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, pp. 246-248.
  • Hanns Heiss: Studies on some relationships between German and French literature in the XVIII. Century. I. The translator and mediator Michael Huber (1727-1804). In: Romanische Forschungen 25, 1908, pp. 720-800.
  • Michael Huber . In: Sheets of the Bavarian State Association for Family Studies e. V. , Volume 2, Volume 6 (1928), No. 1, p. 1 ff.
  • Michael Huber . To research on the origin of Michael Huber. In: Sheets of the Bavarian State Association for Family Studies e. V. , Volume 2, Volume 6 (1928), No. 4. P. 54 f.
  • Wulf Segebrecht:  Huber, Michael. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , pp. 685 f. ( Digitized version ).

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personal data
SURNAME Huber, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary historian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1727
PLACE OF BIRTH Loitersdorf (Frontenhausen)
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1804
Place of death Leipzig