Otto Friedrich Gruppe was a metaphysical German

Germany

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 philosopher, scholar-poet and philologist who served as secretary of the Preussische Akademie der Künste

Akademie der Künste

The Akademie der Künste, Berlin is an arts institution in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in 1696 by Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg as the Prussian Academy of Arts, an academic institution where members could meet and discuss and share ideas...

 in Berlin. Poems by Gruppe were set by Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene...

, Richard Strauss

Richard Strauss

Richard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome; his Lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; and his tone poems and orchestral works, such as Death and Transfiguration, Till...

, Karl Löwe

Karl Lowe

Karl Lowe is a New Zealand rugby union footballer. He currently plays at Openside Flanker for the Hurricanes.-Career:...

, and Franz Schreker

Franz Schreker

Franz Schreker was an Austrian composer, conductor, teacher and administrator. Primarily a composer of operas, his style is characterized by aesthetic plurality , timbral experimentation, strategies of extended tonality and...

. He rediscovered the cycle of Latin elegies by the Augustan poetess Sulpicia

Sulpicia

-Sulpicia I:The earlier Sulpicia is the only known woman from Ancient Rome whose poetry survives to this day. She is said to have lived in the reign of Augustus and have been probably the daughter of Servius Sulpicius Rufus and a niece of Messalla Corvinus, an important patron of literature...

 and demonstrated their poetic value.

As a philosopoher, he reacted against Hegel his teacher in Berlin, his work was attacked by Karl Marx

Karl Marx

Karl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of social science and the socialist political movement...

, and severely criticised by others. But Gruppe was rediscovered as a philosopher by Fritz Mauthner

Fritz Mauthner

Fritz Mauthner was a journalist and philosopher from Horschitz, Bohemia.He became editor of the Berliner Tageblatts in 1895, but is best known for his Beiträge zu einer Kritik der Sprache , published in three parts in 1901 and 1902...

 in an article on Gruppe printed in Maximilian Harden's Die Zukunft 22 (Berlin 1913). More recently, Gruppe has been interpreted as a precursor of Wittgenstein by H. Sluga in 1980; his 'Gegenwart und Zukunft der Philosophie in Deutschland' (1855) was reprinted in 1996.

Gruppe was born in Danzig (Gdańsk)

Gdansk

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 and died in Berlin

Berlin

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. His son was the mythographer Otto Gruppe

Otto Gruppe

Otto Gruppe was a German mythographer, remembered for his Griechische Mythologie und Religion-Geschichte , which summed up the 19th century reading of Greek mythology through surviving texts...

(1851-1901).

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