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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Ferdinand_Huber>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1873:
The Albert Bridge, spanning the River Thames in London, opened
to traffic.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Bridge,_London>
1933:
The Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane made landfall in the Outer
Banks of North Carolina and went on to cause at least 47 deaths in the
U.S. Mid-Atlantic region.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_Chesapeake%E2%80%93Potomac_hurricane>
1943:
Second World War: A decisive Soviet victory against German
forces at the Battle of Kursk gave the Red Army the strategic initiative
for the rest of the war.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kursk>
2006:
Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of ten in
Vienna, escaped from her captor's house in Strasshof an der Nordbahn
after more than eight years in captivity.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natascha_Kampusch>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
panda car:
(Britain, law enforcement, informal) A police car; specifically
(historical), one with a broad white stripe painted around its middle on
a darker-coloured or, originally, black background.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/panda_car>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
To a reluctant admission of the necessity for State action, we
join a burning belief in duty, and a deep spiritual ideal of life. And
we have more than an abstract belief in duty, we do not hesitate to
unite the advocacy of social reform with an appeal to the various
classes who compose society to perform those duties without which all
social reform must be merely delusive.
--Arnold Toynbee
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arnold_Toynbee>
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