Otto Friedrich Gruppe

For his son, see Otto Gruppe.

Otto Friedrich Gruppe (15 April 1804 – 7 January 1876) was a metaphysical German philosopher, scholar-poet and philologist who served as secretary of the Preussische Akademie der Künste in Berlin. Poems by Gruppe were set by Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauss, Karl Löwe, and Franz Schreker. He rediscovered the cycle of Latin elegies by the Augustan poetess Sulpicia and demonstrated their poetic value.

As a philosopoher, he reacted against Hegel his teacher in Berlin, his work was attacked by Karl Marx, and severely criticised by others. But Gruppe was rediscovered as a philosopher by Fritz Mauthner in an article on Gruppe printed in Maximilian Harden's Die Zukunft 22 (Berlin 1913). More recently, Gruppe has been interpreted as a precursor of Wittgenstein by H. Sluga in 1980; his 'Gegenwart und Zukunft der Philosophie in Deutschland' (1855) was reprinted in 1996.^[1]

Gruppe was born in Danzig (Gdańsk) and died in Berlin. His son was the mythographer Otto Gruppe (1851-1901).

Notes

1. ^ Scholia review of Bernays 2004

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 (Scholia review).

External links

• Works by or about Otto Friedrich Gruppe in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

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Name	Gruppe, Otto
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Date of birth	15 April 1804
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