H. H. (Heinrich Hubert) Houben

Born on March 30, 1875, Heinrich Hubert Houben was a German literary historian. Available biographical sources describe him as an important figure in literary scholarship, and note that he served as literary director of the Brockhaus publishing house from 1907 to 1919.

Houben is known for writing about authors, literary culture, and the world of publishing. His work focused on documenting writers' lives and the history around books and ideas, which made him valuable both as a critic and as a historian of literature.

He died on July 27, 1935. While readily available online information about his life is fairly limited, the records that are easy to confirm present him as a serious, well-regarded scholar whose work contributed to preserving German literary history.