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).
His collected works, Sämtliche Werke seit dem Jahre 1802 (4 vols., 1807–1819), were published with a biography by his wife Therese Huber. See L. Speidel and H. Wittmann, Bilder aus der Schiller-Zeit (1884).
HUBERT (Hucbertus, Hugbertus), ST (d. 727), bishop of Liége, whose festival is celebrated on the 3rd of November. The Bollandists have published seven different lives of the saint. The first is the only one of any value, and is the work of a contemporary. Unfortunately, it is very sparing of details. In it we see that Hubert in 708 succeeded Lambert in the see of Maestricht (Tongres), and that he erected a basilica to his memory. In 825 Hubert’s remains were removed to a Benedictine cloister in the Ardennes, which thenceforth bore his name (St Hubert, province of Luxemburg, Belgium), and ultimately
became a considerable resort of pilgrims. The later
legends (Bibliotheca hagiographica latina, nos. 3994-4002) are devoid of authority. One of them relates, probably following the legend of St Eustace, the miracle of the conversion of St Hubert. This conversion, represented as having been brought about while he was hunting on Good Friday by a miraculous appearance of a stag bearing between his horns a cross or crucifix
surrounded with rays of light, has frequently been made the subject of artistic treatment. He is the patron of hunters, and is also invoked in cases of hydrophobia. Several orders of knighthood have been under his protection; among these may be mentioned the Bavarian, the Bohemian and that of the electorate of Cologne.
See Acta Sanctorum, Novembris, i. 759–930; G. Kurth, Chartes de l’abbaye de St Hubert en Ardenne (Brussels, 1903); Anna Jameson, Sacred and Legendary Art, i. 732-737 (London, 1896); Cahier, Caractéristiques des saints, pp. 183, 775, &c. (Paris, 1867). (H. De.)
HUBERTUSBURG, a château in the kingdom of Saxony,
near the village of Wermsdorf and midway 6 m. between the
towns Oschatz and Grimma. It was built in 1721–1724 by
Frederick Augustus II., elector of Saxony, subsequently King
Augustus III. of Poland, as a hunting box, and was often the
scene of brilliant festivities. It is famous for the peace signed
here on the 15th of February 1763, which ended the Seven Years’
War. After undergoing various vicissitudes, it now serves the
purpose of a lunatic asylum and a training school for nursing
sisters.
See Riemer, Das Schloss Hubertusburg, sonst und jetzt (Oschatz, 1881).
HUBLI, a town of British India, in the Dharwar district of
Bombay, 15 m. S.E. of Dharwar town. Pop. (1901) 60,214.
It is a railway junction on the Southern Mahratta system,
where the lines to Bangalore and Bezwada branch off south and
west. It is an important centre of trade and of cotton and silk
weaving, and has two cotton mills and several factories for
ginning and pressing cotton. Hubli was in early times the seat
of an English factory, which, with the rest of the town, was
plundered in 1673 by Sivaji, the Mahratta leader.
HÜBNER, EMIL (1834–1901), German classical scholar, son
of the historical painter Julius Hübner (1806–1882), was born at
Düsseldorf on the 7th of July 1834. After studying at Berlin
and Bonn, he travelled extensively with a view to antiquarian
and epigraphical researches. The results of these travels were
embodied in several important works: Inscriptiones Hispaniae
Latinae (1869, supplement 1892), I. H. Christianae (1871, supplement
1900); Inscriptiones Britanniae Latinae (1873), I. B.
Christianae (1876); La Arqueologia de España (1888); Monumenta
linguae Hibericae (1893). Hübner was also the author
of two books of the greatest utility to the classical student:
Grundriss zu Vorlesungen über die römische Literaturgeschichte
(4th ed. 1878, edited, with large additions, by J. E. B. Mayor as
Bibliographical Clue to Latin Literature, 1875), and Bibliographie
der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (2nd ed., 1889); mention
may also be made of Römische Epigraphik (2nd ed., 1892);
Exempla Scripturae Epigraphicae Latinae (1885); and Römische
Herrschaft in Westeuropa (1890). In 1870 Hübner was appointed
professor of Classical Philology in the university of Berlin,
where he died on the 21st of February 1901.
HÜBNER, JOSEPH ALEXANDER, Count (1811–1892),
Austrian diplomatist, was born in Vienna on the 26th of
November 1811. His real name was Hafenbredl, which he afterwards
changed to Hübner. He began his public career in 1833
under Metternich, whose confidence he soon gained, and who
sent him in 1837 as attaché to Paris. In 1841 he became secretary
of embassy at Lisbon, and in 1844 Austrian consul-general at
Leipzig. In 1848 he was sent to Milan to conduct the diplomatic
correspondence of Archduke Rainer, viceroy of Lombardy.
On the outbreak of the revolution he was seized as a hostage,
and remained a prisoner for some months. Returning to Austria,
he was entrusted with the compilation of the documents and proclamations
relating to the abdication of the Emperor Ferdinand
and the accession of Francis Joseph. His journal, an invaluable
clue to the complicated intrigues of this period, was published
in 1891 in French and German, under the title of Une Année
de ma vie, 1848–1849. In March 1849 he was sent on a special
mission to Paris, and later in the same year was appointed
ambassador to France. To his influence was in large measure
due the friendly attitude of Austria to the Allies in the Crimean
War, at the close of which he represented Austria at the congress
of Paris in 1856. He allowed himself, however, to be taken by
surprise by Napoleon’s intervention on behalf of Italian unity,
of which the first public intimation was given by the French
emperor’s cold reception of Hübner on New Year’s Day, 1859,
with the famous words: “I regret that our relations with your
Government are not so good as they have hitherto been.” He
did not return to Paris after the war, and after holding the
ministry of police in the Goluchowski cabinet from August to
October 1859, lived in retirement till 1865, when he became
ambassador at Rome. Quitting this post in 1867, he undertook
extensive travels, his descriptions of which appeared as Promenade
autour du monde, 1871 (1873; English translation by Lady
Herbert, 1874) and Through the British Empire (1886). Written
in a bright and entertaining style, and characterized by shrewd
observation, they achieved considerable popularity in their
time. A more serious effort was his Sixte-Quint (1870, translated
into English by H. E. H. Jerningham under the title of
The Life and Times of Sixtus the Fifth, 1872), an original contribution
to the history of the period, based on unpublished documents
at the Vatican, Simancas and Venice. In 1879 he was made
a life-member of the Austrian Upper House, where he sat as a
Clerical and Conservative. He had received the rank of Baron
(Freiherr) in 1854, and in 1888 was raised to the higher rank of
Count (Graf). He died at Vienna on the 30th of July 1892.
Though himself of middle-class origin, he was a profound admirer
of the old aristocratic régime, and found his political ideals in
his former chiefs, Metternich and Schwarzenberg. As the last
survivor of the Metternich school, he became towards the close
of his life more and more out of touch with the trend of modern
politics, but remained a conspicuous figure in the Upper House
and at the annual delegations. That he possessed the breadth
of mind to appreciate the working of a system at total variance
with his own school of thought was shown by his grasp of British
colonial questions. It is interesting, in view of subsequent
events, to note his emphatic belief in the loyalty of the British
colonies—a belief not shared at that time by many statesmen
with far greater experience of democratic institutions.
See Sir Ernest Satow, An Austrian Diplomatist in the Fifties (1908).
HUC, ÉVARISTE RÉGIS (1813–1860), French missionary-traveller, was born at Toulouse, on the 1st of August 1813. In his twenty-fourth year he entered the congregation of the Lazarists at Paris, and shortly after receiving holy orders in
