Friedrich August Grotefend (12 December 1798 in Ilefeld to 28 February 1836 in

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. Grotefend was a relative of Georg Friedrich Grotefend, who

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Biography

Grotefend studied

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and

philology Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ...

at the

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, and afterwards was a teacher at the Pädagogium in Ilefeld (from 1821). In 1831 he was appointed director of the gymnasium in

. In 1835 he received an associate

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at the University of Göttingen, however he died soon afterwards on 28 February 1836.ADB: Grotefend, August
@ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie His work was largely in the field of

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, being especially concerned with its aspects of syntax.

Publications

* ''Grundzüge einer neuen Satztheorie auf die Theorie des Herrn Prof. Herling''. Hannover (1827) – Principles of a new set theory: in relation to the theory of Simon Heinrich Adolf Herling.OCLC WorldCat
Grundzüge einer neuer Satztheorie * ''Ausführliche Grammatik der lateinischen Sprache'' (A complete grammar of the Latin language). 2 vols. Hannover (1829–30). * ''Lateinische Schulgrammatik''. 2 vols. Hannover (1842).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Grotefend, Friedrich August 1798 births 1836 deaths German philologists German Latinists 19th-century Latin-language writers People from Nordhausen (district) Academic staff of the University of Göttingen