- Otto Gruppe
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For his father, see Otto Friedrich Gruppe. For the German military term Gruppe, see Glossary of German military terms.
Otto Gruppe (1851-1921) was a German mythographer, remembered for his Griechische Mythologie und Religion-Geschichte (1906), which summed up the 19th century reading of Greek mythology through surviving texts. He was also the author of a Geschichte der Klassischen Mythologie und Religionsgeschichte während des Mittelalters in Abendland und während der Neuzeit, a "history of Classical mythology and the history of religion in the Medieval West and in modern times."
Otto Gruppe was the son of the philosopher, scholar-poet and philologist Otto Friedrich Gruppe (1804-1876).
References
- Ludwig Bernays (ed.), Otto Friedrich Gruppe 1804-1876: Philosoph, Dichter, Philologe. (Paradeigmata 3) (Freiburg-in-Breisgau: Rombach Verlag) 2004. ISBN 3-7930-9377-8
External links
- Works by or about Otto Gruppe in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
Categories:- 1851 births
- 1921 deaths
- Mythographers
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