(1801–1874) was a German writer (as Eduard Biber) who migrated to the United Kingdom, where he became a man of letters and Anglican priest.
[1] For political reasons Biber left Württemberg, first for Italy, and then for the Grisons, where for several months he lay low in a farmhouse.
He opposed the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland, and took part the establishment of the National Club founded in 1845 by John Campbell Colquhoun; it was a pressure group for Anglicans and other Protestants.
[1][2] Biber was elected a member of the council of the English Church Union in 1863, and was prominent in the case of J. W. Colenso.
[1] Biber published a major theological work at the time of the Oxford Movement, The Standard of Catholicity, or an Attempt to point out in a plain Manner certain safe and leading Principles amidst the conflicting Opinions by which the Church is at present agitated (London, 1840; 2nd edition, 1844).
[1] This work was addressed to Richard Waldo Sibthorp, an Anglican cleric who in 1841 had converted to Catholicism (temporarily as it turned out).
[7] Sympathising with the later Old Catholic movement of Germany, Biber carried on a Latin correspondence with one of its leader, Michaelis.
They had a son, George Eden Biber (1832–1866), also a cleric, who matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford in 1851.