Otto Gruppe

For his father, see Otto Friedrich Gruppe. For the German military term Gruppe, see Glossary of German military terms.

Otto Gruppe (18 July 1851, Berlin 27 November 1921, Berlin) was a German mythographer, remembered for his "Griechische Mythologie und Religion-Geschichte" (1906), which summed up the 19th century reading of Greek mythology 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 religious history in medieval western Europe and in modern times".

Otto Gruppe was the son of the philosopher, scholar-poet and philologist Otto Friedrich Gruppe (1804-1876).

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