Family Name: Gruber
First Name: Johann
Birth Date: Sun, Nov 27, 1774
Birth Place: Naumburg
Death Date: Tue, Aug 05, 1851
Death Place: Halle
Main places of activity:
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Leipzig 1790 1801
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Jena 1801 1802
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Weimar 1803 1809
Personal info:
Education

He received his education at the town school of Naumburg and the University of Leipzig, after which he resided at Göttingen, Leipzig, Jena and Weimar, occupying himself partly in teaching and partly in various literary enterprises, and enjoying in Weimar the friendship of Herder, Wieland and Goethe. 

1792-1793: study of Philosophy (he attended the courses of Christian Daniel Beck, Karl Adolf Caesar and Karl Heinrich Heydenreich), History, Classical Philology, theological and scientific meetings.
Career

In 1811 he was appointed Professor at the University of Wittenberg; after the division of Saxony he was sent by the Senate to Berlin to negotiate the union of the University of Wittenberg with that of Halle. After the union was effected, he became in 1815 professor of Philosophy at Halle. He was associated with Johann Samuel Ersch in the editorship of the great work Allgemeine Encyklopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste; and after the death of Ersch, he continued the first section from vol. xviii. to vol. iiv. He also succeeded Ersch in the editorship of the Allgemeine Literaturzeitung. 
Financial Situation

As his parents had financial problems,  he lived with his grandfather.
Translations Other Works

translations activities

He translated from Latin and European modern Languages

secondary bibliography references

Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911), "Gruber, Johann Gottfried", Encyclopædia Britannica,   (11th ed.), Cambridge University Press. p. 639.

Translations

  • de generis humani varietate nativa

  • Translation Title: … über die natürlichen Verschiedenheiten im Menschengeschlechte : mit Kupfern / Nach der dritten Ausgabe und den Erinnerungen des Verfassers übersetzt, und mit einigen Zusätzen und erläuternden Anmerkungen herausgegeben von Johann Gottfried Gruber
  • Original Author: Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich
  • Original title: de generis humani varietate nativa
  • Publ. Year From: 1793 to:
  • lang: Latin
  • Note:

    first edition: Io. Frid. Blumenbachii … de generis humani varietate liber : cum figuris aeri incisis. – Goettingae : Apud Viduam Abr. Vandenhoeck, 1776. 
  • Translation: … über die natürlichen Verschiedenheiten im Menschengeschlechte : mit Kupfern / Nach der dritten Ausgabe und den Erinnerungen des Verfassers übersetzt, und mit einigen Zusätzen und erläuternden Anmerkungen herausgegeben von Johann Gottfried Gruber
  • Publisher: Bey Breitkopf und Härtel
  • Pub. Place: Leipzig
  • Pub. Date: 1796
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