Career
In 1787 he was appointed secretary to the Saxon legation in Mainz, where he remained until the French occupation of 1792. Isabelle de Charriere helped them by paying the translations they made in German of her literary writings (1794-1804), mostly published later in French. In 1798 Huber took over the editorship of the Allgemeine Zeitung in Stuttgart.
The newspaper having been prohibited in Württemberg, Huber continued its editorship in Ulm in 1803.
He was created "counsellor of education" for the new Bavarian province of Swabia in the following year, but had hardly entered upon the functions of his new office when he died. Huber was well versed in English literature, and in 1785 he published the drama Ethelwolf, with notes on Beaumont and Fletcher and the old English stage.
He also wrote many dramas, comedies and tragedies, most of which are now forgotten, and among them only Das heimliche Gericht (1790, new ed 1795) enjoyed any degree of popularity. As a critic he is seen to advantage in the Vermischte Schriften von dem Verfasser des heimlichen Gerichts (2 vols, 1793).
As a publicist he made his name in the historical-political periodicals Friedenspräliminarien (1794–1796, 10 vols) and Klio (1795–1798, 1819).
