Therese Huber
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Life
Therese Huber was born Therese Heyne in GöttingenGöttingen
Göttingen is a university town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the capital of the district of Göttingen. The Leine river runs through the town. In 2006 the population was 129,686.-General information:...
as daughter of the influential classical philologist Christian Gottlob Heyne
Christian Gottlob Heyne
Christian Gottlob Heyne was a German classical scholar and archaeologist as well as long-time director of the Göttingen State and University Library.-Biography:He was born in Chemnitz, Electorate of Saxony...
. She married traveller and ethnologist Georg Forster
Georg Forster
Johann Georg Adam Forster was a German naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist, and revolutionary. At an early age, he accompanied his father on several scientific expeditions, including James Cook's second voyage to the Pacific...
in 1785. They lived in Wilno 1785–1787 and in Göttingen and Mainz
Mainz
Mainz under the Holy Roman Empire, and previously was a Roman fort city which commanded the west bank of the Rhine and formed part of the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire...
1788–1792 and had three children, but an unhappy marriage. After Forster had left Mainz for Paris as representative of the Mainz Republic, she and her lover Ludwig Ferdinand Huber
Ludwig Ferdinand Huber
Ludwig Ferdinand Huber , German author, was born in Paris, the son of Michael Huber , who did much to promote the study of German literature in France....
, who had been living with the Forsters in Mainz, moved to Neuchâtel, living under difficult conditions there. She and Forster met for the last time in 1793, when he agreed to a divorce. However, Forster died soon after, and she married her lover. After his 1804 death, she moved in with her daughter in Ulm
Ulm
Ulm is a city in the federal German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the River Danube. The city, whose population is estimated at 120,000 , forms an urban district of its own and is the administrative seat of the Alb-Donau district. Ulm, founded around 850, is rich in history and...
. Huber died in 1829 in Augsburg
Augsburg
Augsburg is a city in the south-west of Bavaria, Germany. It is a university town and home of the Regierungsbezirk Schwaben and the Bezirk Schwaben. Augsburg is an urban district and home to the institutions of the Landkreis Augsburg. It is, as of 2008, the third-largest city in Bavaria with a...
. The most notable of her ten children, six of which survived, was social reformer Victor Aimé Huber
Victor Aimé Huber
Victor Aimé Huber was a German social reformer, travel writer and a literature historian.Huber's parents were a couple of writers, Ludwig Ferdinand and Therese Huber, née Heyne...
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Works
Huber's main work consists of novels, novellas, and travel reports, at first published under her husband Ludwig's name. However, she was also working as editor of the Morgenblatt für gebildete Stände (Morning paper for the educated classes), as translator, and as essayist. Furthermore, she wrote over 4500 letters to many important contemporaries, about a wide range of topics. Later in her life, Huber edited the works and letters of both of her husbands. Her novel, Abentheuer auf einer Reise nach Neu-Holland [Adventures on a Voyage to New Holland] was serialized in the 1793-1794 issues of the German women’s magazine, Flora: part of the tale was set in Norfolk Island, which thus made its first appearance in a work of fiction. Georg Forster had been one of the party of the first Europeans to ever to set foot on Norfolk Island when it was discovered in October 1774 during Cook’s second voyage, and Therese had drawn on his description of it in his Reise um die Welt.Publications
(in German)- Abentheuer auf einer Reise nach Neu-Holland. "Teutschlands Töchtern geweiht", Tübingen 1793; English translation by Rodney Livingstone, Adventures on a Journey to New Holland, edited by Leslie Bodi, Melbourne 1966.
- Die Familie Seldorf. Eine Geschichte (2 Bände), Tübingen 1795/96.
- Luise – oder ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Konvenienz. Leipzig 1796.
- Erzählungen (3 Bände), Braunschweig 1801–02.
- L. F. Hubers sämtliche Werke seit dem Jahr 1802, nebst seiner Biographie. Bd. 1–2. Tübingen 1806–10, +Fortsetzungen 1819.
- Bemerkungen über Holland - aus dem Reisejournal einer deutschen Frau, Leipzig 1811.
- Ellen Percy, oder Erziehung durch Schicksale (2 Bände), Leipzig 1822.
- Johann Georg Forsters Briefwechsel. Nebst einigen Nachrichten von seinem Leben (2 Bände), Leipzig 1829.
- Die Ehelosen (2 Bände), Leipzig 1829.
- Die Weihe der Jungfrau bei ihrem Eintritt in die größere Welt, Leipzig [1831].
- Erzählungen von Therese Huber. Hrsg. von Victor Aimé Huber (6 Bände), Leipzig 1830–34.