Georg August Grotefend
Georg August Grotefend (born March 2, 1832 in Lingen (Ems) , † December 7, 1903 in Marburg ) was a German writer and lawyer.
Life
He passed his Abitur in 1850 at the Georgianum Gymnasium (Lingen) . He later moved to Bremen . He then went to Göttingen to study there. During his law studies he learned Latin intensively , which enabled him to acquire a large vocabulary and later to master the language like his own mother tongue. After completing his studies, he joined the Hanoverian and later the Prussian civil service as a lawyer and found employment in the civil service in Trier and Düsseldorf , among others . He became known for writing legal texts.
Works
- Grotefends laws
- Grotefend's edicts
- Grotefends all Prussian-German legislative material
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SURNAME | Grotefend, Georg August |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer, lawyer |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 2, 1832 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Lingen (Ems) |
DATE OF DEATH | December 7, 1903 |
Place of death | Marburg |