Otto Group

Otto Gruppe (born July 18, 1851 in Berlin ; † November 27, 1921 there ) was a German classical scholar and high school teacher.

Gruppe, son of the philosopher Otto Friedrich Gruppe , studied at Berlin University , where he received his doctorate on January 29, 1873. In 1874 he passed the state examination in Greek, Latin, German and history. From 1876 until his retirement in 1915 he worked at the Askanisches Gymnasium in Berlin. Scientifically, he mainly dealt with questions of the ancient history of religion.

Publications (selection)

• Quaestiones Annaeanae. Berlin 1873, (Berlin, University, dissertation, 1873; digitized ).
• The Greek Cults and Myths in their Relationship to the Oriental Religions. Volume 1: Introduction. Teubner, Leipzig 1887, ( digitized version ).
• De Cadmi fabula (= scientific supplement to the program of the Askanisches Gymnasium. Easter 1891, ZDB -ID 748997-3 ). Gaertner, Berlin 1891, ( online ).
• Greek mythology and religious history (= handbook of classical antiquity . Vol. 5, section 2). Beck, Munich 1906.
• History of classical mythology and the history of religion during the Middle Ages in the West and during modern times (= detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Supplement). Teubner, Leipzig 1921 ( digital version (PDF; 98.35 MB) ).

literature

• Otto Biltz: In memory of Professor Gruppe. In: Askanische Blätter. No. 11, December 1921, ISSN  0936-2258 , pp. 4–5 (with picture), ( digital version (PDF; 8.67 MB) )

Web links

Wikisource: Otto Group  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by Otto Gruppe in the catalog of the German National Library
• Otto Group personnel sheet in the personnel file of the BIL expert body in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Only this volume appeared. Michael O. Krieg: Not more than that. Volume 1: A - L (= Bibliotheca Bibliographica. Vol. 2, Part 1). Krieg, Bad Bocklet et al. 1954, p. 284.