Otto Gruppe was a German mythographer, remembered for his Griechische Mythologie und Religion-Geschichte (1906), which summed up the 19th century reading of Greek mythology

Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. They were a part of religion in ancient Greece...

 through surviving texts. He was also the author of a Geschichte der Klassischen Mythologie und Religionsgeschichte während des Mittelalters in Abendland und während der Neuzeit, a "history of Classical mythology and the history of religion in the Medieval West and in modern times."

Otto Gruppe was the son of the philosopher, scholar-poet and philologist Otto Friedrich Gruppe

Otto Friedrich Gruppe

Otto Friedrich Gruppe was a metaphysical German philosopher, scholar-poet and philologist who served as secretary of the Preussische Akademie der Künste in Berlin. Poems by Gruppe were set by Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauss, Karl Löwe, and Franz Schreker...

(1804-1876).

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