Ludwig Ferdinand Huber 

(1764–1804) was a German translator, diplomat, playwright, literary

critic, and journalist. Born in Paris to the Bavarian-born writer Michael Huber and his French wife,
he grew up bilingual in French and German and published translations from English and French
from an early age. When he lived in Leipzig and Dresden as a young man, he and his
fiancée Dora Stock were both close friends of the poet Friedrich Schiller. From 1788, Huber
served as a diplomat in Mainz, where he met world traveller Georg Forster and started an affair
with his wife Therese. He and Therese later married after escaping from revolutionary Mainz to
Switzerland, where Huber was active as a journalist and reviewer, and as translator of the works
of Isabelle de Charrière. In 1798, Huber returned to Germany as an editor for Johann Friedrich
Cotta's newspaper Allgemeine Zeitung. Having fallen into relative obscurity after his death, he is
studied mostly for his friendships and his literary criticism.