Heinrich Wilhelm Grauert, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Heinrich Wilhelm Grauert

German historian and philologist

Date of Birth: 25-Mar-1804

Place of Birth: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 10-Jan-1852

Profession: historian, university teacher, classical scholar, classical philologist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Heinrich Wilhelm Grauert (25 March 1804, in Amsterdam – 10 January 1852, in Vienna) was a Dutch born, German historian and classical philologist. From 1821 he studied history and philology at the University of Bonn, where he was a pupil of Karl Friedrich Heinrich and August Ferdinand Naeke.
At Bonn, he came under the influence of historian Barthold Georg Niebuhr, of whom he worked as a tutor to his son Marcus.
In 1825 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the fabulist Aesop, titled De Aesopo et fabulis Aesopicis.
In 1827 he was appointed associate professor of history and classical studies at the Academy of Münster, where in 1836 he attained a full professorship of history.
In 1850 he became a professor of history and director of the newly revised historical seminary at the University of Vienna, but died soon afterwards on 10 January 1852, aged 47.