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


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About Heinrich Wilhelm Grauert

  • 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.

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