HUBER, LUDWIG FERDINAND (1764-1804), German publicist, was born in Paris on Sept. 14, i 764, and was brought up in Leipzig, where he became closely associated with Korner, to whose sister-in-law, Dora Stock, he became betrothed. From 1787 to 1792 he was secretary to the Saxon legation at Mainz, but aban doned the post on account of his passion for Therese Forster, whose husband had deserted her. On Georg Forster's death in Paris Huber married Therese in Switzerland. In 1798 he became editor of the Allgemeine Zeitung in Stuttgart, and, when the paper was prohibited in Wurttemberg, removed with it to Ulm, where he died on Dec. 24, 1804.
Huber wrote many plays, the best of which was Des heimliche Gericht. His Sdmtliche Werke (4 vols., 1807-19) contain a biography by Therese Huber.