Grotefend

Grotefend is the family name of the following people:

• Friedrich August Grotefend (1798–1836), German philologist
• Georg August Grotefend (1832–1903), German writer and lawyer
• Georg Friedrich Grotefend (1775–1853), German linguist and first decipherer of the cuneiform script , father Karl Ludwig Grotefends, uncle Friedrich August Grotefends, grandfather Hermann Grotefends and namesake of the Grotefend grammar school in Münden
• Hermann Grotefend (1845–1931), German historian and archivist, specialist in chronology
• Johann Gregor Grotefend (1766–1837), German Protestant theologian
• Karl Ludwig Grotefend (1807–1874), German historian and numismatist
• Otto Grotefend (1873–1945), German historian and archivist, son of Hermann Grotefend
• Wilhelm Grotefend (1857–1901), German historian, philologist and librarian in Kassel

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.