Johann Nepomuk Huber

Johann Nepomuk Huber (pseudonym Janus, born August 18, 1830 in Munich, † March 20, 1879 in Munich) was a German journalist and philosopher. Huber studied theology and philosophy in Munich, qualified as a lecturer in 1854 and became an associate in 1859, in 1864 a full professor of philosophy.

As a philosophical writer, he has through the writings:

  • About free will (Munich 1858),
  • Idea of ​​immortality (Munich 1864, 2nd edition 1865),
  • The Philosophy of the Church Fathers (Munich 1859),
  • Studies ( 1867) and the monograph
  • John Scotus Eriugena (1861 ) made ​​known.

The penultimate set a font in Rome to the Index and, as Huber the request for revocation rejected, the Catholic students of theology banned the visit of his lectures.

Huber opened in the Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper since 1867 in the fight against Romanism and Jesuitism. Since he had share in the preparation of the famous book The Pope and the Council, by Janus ( München. 1869) as well as the published during the Vatican Council in the Allgemeine Zeitung Roman letter Great, he was regarded since then as a champion of the Old Catholic movement, in whose spirit he brochures: the Papacy and the State (ibid., 1870) and the liberties of the French Church (1871 ) and wrote on the Old Catholic congresses from now was the chief speaker.

His work, The Jesuit Order and in accordance with constitutional doctrine, science and history ( München. 1873) was placed immediately on the Index in Rome.

Huber involved in the national survey with Scripture The ratio of German philosophy to the national survey (Berlin 1871) in zustimmendem, on the other hand, outgoing from the natural sciences flow through his writings:

  • The teaching of Darwin's critically considered (Munich, 1871),
  • The old and the new faith were critically assessed ( Nördlingen 1873),
  • The religious question,
  • For a critique of modern creation doctrines (both Münch. 1875) disapprovingly.

He also published:

  • The proletarian, for orientation in the social question (Munich 1865)
  • Small fonts ( Leipz. 1871)
  • Pessimism (Munich 1876)
  • The research into the matter ( 1877)
  • On the Philosophy of Astronomy (1878 )
  • The Memory (1878 )
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