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JOHANN NEPOMUK HUBER (1830-1879)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 845 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NEPOMUK See also:HUBER (1830-1879)  , See also:German philosophical and theological writer, a See also:leader of the Old Catholics, was See also:born at See also:Munich on the 18th of See also:August 1830 . Originally destined for the priesthood, he See also:early began the study of See also:theology . By the writings of See also:Spinoza and See also:Oken, however, he was strongly See also:drawn to philosophical pursuits, and it was in See also:philosophy that he " habilitated " (1854) in the university of his native See also:place, where he ultimately became See also:professor (extraordinarius, 1859; ordinarius, 1864) . With See also:Dollinger and others he attracted a large amount of public See also:attention in 1869 by the See also:challenge to the Ultramontane promoters of the Vatican See also:council in the See also:treatise Der Papst and das Koncil, which appeared under the See also:pseudonym of " See also:Janus," and also in 1870 by a See also:series of letters (Romische See also:Bride, a redaction of See also:secret reports sent from See also:Rome during the sitting of the council), which were published over the pseudonym See also:Quirinus in the Allgemeine Zeitung . He died suddenly of See also:heart disease at Munich on the 20th of See also:March 1879 .

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