Otto Gruppe (18 July 1851,

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

– 27 November 1921, Berlin) was a German

mythographer Myth is a folklore genre consisting of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society, such as foundational tales or origin myths. Since "myth" is widely used to imply that a story is not objectively true, the identification of a narrat ...

, remembered for his ''Griechische Mythologie und Religion-Geschichte'' (1906), in which used surviving texts to survey the historical development of

Greek mythology A major branch of classical mythology, Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the Ancient Greece, ancient Greeks, and a genre of Ancient Greek folklore. These stories concern the Cosmogony, origin and Cosmology#Metaphysical co ...

and religion. He was also the author of ''Geschichte der Klassischen Mythologie und Religionsgeschichte während des Mittelalters in Abendland und während der Neuzeit'' (''History of Classical Mythology and History of Religion in Medieval Western Europe and the Modern Age''). Otto Gruppe was the son of the philosopher, scholar-poet and

philologist 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 ...

Otto Friedrich Gruppe __NOTOC__ Otto Friedrich Gruppe (15 April 1804 – 7 January 1876) was a German philosopher, scholar-poet and philologist who served as secretary of the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin. Poems by Gruppe were set to music by Johannes Brahms ...

(1804–1876).

References

*Ludwig Bernays (ed.), ''Otto Friedrich Gruppe 1804-1876: Philosoph, Dichter, Philologe.'' (Paradeigmata 3) (Freiburg-in-Breisgau: Rombach Verlag) 2004.

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Otto Gruppe
de.Wikisource 1851 births 1921 deaths Mythographers Writers from Berlin German classical philologists {{Germany-academic-bio-stub