HUBER, JOHANN NEPOMUK German philosophical and theological writer, a leader of the Old Catholics, was born on Aug. 18, 1830, at Munich, where he was professor of theology from 1864 until his death on March 20, 1879. He joined Dollinger and others in the challenge to the supporters of the Vatican council in the treatise Der Papst and das Koncil, which appeared under the pseudonym of "Janus," and also in 1870 by a series of letters (Romische Brie f e, a redaction of secret reports sent from Rome during the sitting of the council), which were published over the pseudonym Quirinus in the Allgemeine Zeitung (see DOLLINGER) .
His Uber die Willensfreiheit (1858) was followed in 1859 by Die Philosophie der Kirchenvdter, which was promptly placed upon the Index. He also published adverse criticisms of Darwin, Strauss, Hart mann and Haeckel.
See E. Zirngiebl, Johannes Huber (1881) .