Background
Gruber was born at Naumburg on the Saale, in the Electorate of Saxony on the 29th of November 1774.
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Gruber was born at Naumburg on the Saale, in the Electorate of Saxony on the 29th of November 1774.
Johann Gottfried Gruber received his education at the town school of Naumburg and the university of Leipzig.
In 1811 Johann Gottfried Gruber was appointed professor at the University of Wittenberg, and 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 Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste.
And after the death of Ersch Johann Gottfried Gruber continued the first section from volunteer xviii. to volunteer liv. He also succeeded Ersch in the editorship of the Allgemeine Literaturzeitung. Gruber was the author of a large number of works, the principal of which are Charakteristik Herders (Leipzig, 1805), in conjunction with Johann TL Danz (1769–1851), afterwards professor of theology at Jena. He also edited Wieland's collected works (Wielands sämmtliche Werke, Leipzig, 1818–1828).
Gruber gained particular importance as co-author of the "Allgemeinen Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste ("Ersch-Gruber"), a monumental, unfinished scientific encyclopaedia. 168 volumes of this work appeared between 1818 and 1889.
