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 &lsquo;Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie&rsquo; (1877) and &lsquo;Grundniss der romanischen Philologie&rsquo; (2d ed., Vol. I, Strassburg 1904-06). Among his other works are &lsquo;Die handschriftlichen Gestaltungen der Chanson de Geste von Fierabras&rsquo; (1869); &lsquo;Die altfranzösichen Romanzen und Pastourellen&rsquo; (Zurich 1872); &lsquo;Carmina Clericorum&rsquo; (7th ed., 1890); &lsquo;Abriss der französischen Litteratur des Mittelalters&rsquo; (1897).