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Carl Friedrich Hübner

Biography


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Sometime clerk in the Chancery Court, Berlin (mid-1760s).

Life with James Boswell

Boswell went in a coach with Hübner to Charlottenburg on July 21, 1764. He described him as "a genteel, even-tempered, fine fellow, much at ease." On July 26, Boswell went with Hübner and F. L. Kircheisen to the Garden of Corsica.

Notes

Notes on identification: The identification of Boswell's Herr Hübner with C.F. Hübner, as suggested by the editors of Boswell on the Grand Tour I, 1763-1764, is only tentative.


Mentioned in

Carl Friedrich Hübner is mentioned in:

  • Boswell on the Grand Tour: Germany and Switzerland 1763-1764

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On his Grand Tour of Europe in 1764-1765, Boswell visited and befriended the famous philosophers Jean-Jacques Rosseau and François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), and back in Edinburgh he was a personal friend of David Hume.

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