The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Gröber, Gustav

GRÖBER, grė'ber, Gustav, German scholar and author: b. Leipzig, 1844; d. 1911. He received his education at Leipzig, taught at Zurich (1871-74), and later became professor at Breslau and the University of Strassburg. His principal work has been in romance literature and linguistics. In the interests of this study he edited ‘Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie’ (1877) and ‘Grundniss der romanischen Philologie’ (2d ed., Vol. I, Strassburg 1904-06). Among his other works are ‘Die handschriftlichen Gestaltungen der Chanson de Geste von Fierabras’ (1869); ‘Die altfranzösichen Romanzen und Pastourellen’ (Zurich 1872); ‘Carmina Clericorum’ (7th ed., 1890); ‘Abriss der französischen Litteratur des Mittelalters’ (1897).