Gruber, JOHANN GOTTFRIED

Gruber, JOHANN GOTTFRIED, German author, born at Nannburg on the Saale, 29th November 1774, studied at Leipzig, and in 1811 was appointed professor at the university of Wittenberg, and in 1815 professor of Philosophy at Halle. He died 7th August 1851. His chief work was that of editing, first with Ersch, and after his death alone, the first section (A to G) of the Allgemeine Encyklopädie (see ENCYCLOPÆDIA). Of his independent works we mention Charakteristik Herders (1805), Geschichte des menschlichen Geschlechts (1805), and lives of Wieland (1815-16) and Klopstock (1832); he also edited Wieland's Sämtliche Werke (1818-28).