Gustav Gröber was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 Romance philologist

Romance studies

Romance studies is an umbrella academic discipline that covers the study of the languages, literatures, and cultures of areas that speak a Romance language. Romance studies departments usually include the study of Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese...

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Biography

He received his education at Leipzig

Leipzig

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, taught at Zurich

Zürich

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 (1871-74), and later became professor at Breslau and the University of Strassburg. His principal work was in Romance literature

Romance literature

Romance literature may refer to:*Medieval romance literature, a style of heroic prose and verse narrative current in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance...

 and linguistics

Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....

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Works

He edited Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie (Journal of Romance philology, 1877) and Grundriss der romanischen Philologie (Outline of Romance philology, 2d ed., Vol. I, Strassburg 1904-06). Among his other works are:

• Die handschriftlichen Gestaltungen der Chanson de Geste von Fierabras (The handwriting structure of the Chanson de Geste
  Chanson de geste
  The chansons de geste, Old French for "songs of heroic deeds", are the epic poems that appear at the dawn of French literature. The earliest known examples date from the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries, nearly a hundred years before the emergence of the lyric poetry of the trouvères and...
  
   of Fierabras
  Fierabras
  Fiërabras or Ferumbras is a Saracen knight appearing in several chansons de geste and other material relating to the Matter of France...
  
  , 1869)
• Die altfranzösichen Romanzen und Pastourellen (The old French Romances and pastorals, Zurich, 1872)
• Carmina Clericorum (7th ed., 1890)
• Abriss der französischen Litteratur des Mittelalters (Outline of French literature of the Middle Ages, 1897)