Robert Grosse

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Robert Grosse (born December 25, 1880 in Hohenlimburg , † October 21, 1968 in Hamburg ) was a German ancient historian and high school teacher.

Life

Robert Grosse, the son of the city school director Karl Grosse († 1898), attended the Hohenlimburg city school from 1890 to 1895 and the Hagen grammar school in Westphalia from 1895 to 1899 . In the summer semester of 1899 he began his studies at the University of Bonn . He first studied law, then switched to the theological faculty in the winter semester of 1899/1900 and finally studied philosophy and German in addition to theology . In the summer semester of 1900 he moved to the University of Marburg , where he joined the German studies specialist Edward Schröder . With Schröder he also wrote his doctoral thesis on Stephan Ritter's Grammatica Germanica Nova (Marburg 1616) . The doctorate took place on March 3, 1904 at the University of Göttingen , to which Schröder had moved in 1902. On November 25, 1904, Grosse passed the teaching exams in religion, Hebrew and German.

After the seminar year at the Oberrealschule auf der Burg in Königsberg , Grosse did his military service as a one-year volunteer . From October 1906 he taught at the cadet school in Hamburg. On May 1, 1920, he moved to the State Educational Institute in Naumburg as a senior teacher , and on April 1, 1924 as director of studies at the Suhl secondary school . On April 1, 1932, he was appointed director of the Christianeum in Altona . On November 1, 1933, he was transferred to the upper secondary school for boys in Altona adElbe, where he worked until his retirement on April 1, 1943.

In addition to his work in the school service, Grosse was active in historical research. His specialty was ancient military history. He wrote numerous essays and lexicon articles (for Pauly-Wissowa and Little Pauly ) as well as the monograph Roman Military History from Gallienus to the beginning of the Byzantine thematic constitution (Berlin 1920).

Fonts (selection)

  • Stephan Ritter's Grammatica Germanica nova (Marburg 1616) . Göttingen 1904 (dissertation)
  • The ranking of the Roman army of the 4th-6th centuries Century . In: Klio . Vol. 15 (1918), pp. 122-161
  • Roman military history from Gallienus to the beginning of the Byzantine thematic constitution . Berlin 1920
  • German antiquity research in Spain . Bamberg 1929
  • Fontes Hispaniae Antiquae. Vol. IX: Las fuentes de la época visigoda y bizantina . Barcelona 1947
  • Fontes Hispaniae Antiquae. Vol. VIII: Las fuentes desde César hasta el siglo V d.de JC Barcelona 1959

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register StA Hamburg-Altona, No. 2079/1968
  2. ↑ The Directors of the Christianeum (Archive of the Christianeum)
personal data
SURNAME Grosse, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ancient historian and high school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohenlimburg
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1968
Place of death Hamburg