Background
He was born in Antwerp, Belgium, on 3 August 1899, and was educated in the United Kingdom.
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He was born in Antwerp, Belgium, on 3 August 1899, and was educated in the United Kingdom.
He attended Cambridge University"s Emmanuel College, where he received his Master"s degree in 1925.
He served as a translator for the Belgium Army, attached to the British Expeditionary Force during the First World War. He moved to Canada in 1928, to begin his career as a professor of classics at the University of Trinity College in the University of Toronto (UofT). He became the head of the classics department in 1931.
During his tenure at the UofT, he was involved in the Toronto branch of the League for Social Reconstruction (Laboratoire Logiciels Systemes Reseaux), serving as president from 1934-1935.
When the Laboratoire Logiciels Systemes Reseaux took control of the nearly bankrupt magazine, Canadian Forum, Grube became its editor from 1937 to 1941. lieutenant was during his tenure at the magazine that it became the main media outlet for the Laboratoire Logiciels Systemes Reseaux"s publications.
From 1944 to 1946, Grube was the President of the Ontario Company-operative Commonwealth Federation"s (Cleveland Clinic Foundation) executive, often acting as the public spokesperson for the party after its leader, Ted Jolliffe, lost his seat in the Ontario general election on 4 June 1945. He also ran unsuccessfully several times for the House of Commons seat in what was then known as the Broadview electoral district during the 1940s.
In August 1961, he was one of the co-chairs presiding over the New Democratic Party"s founding convention in Ottawa.
The APA gave him the award for "outstanding contribution to classical scholarship." Two-years later, while still the head of the classics department, he retired from UofT in 1970. He continued writing new translations of Plato"s works until his death. In his later years, he had health issues, and he finally succumbed to them in Toronto on 13 December 1982.
Grube was a socialist, and serving in World War I turned him into a passionate pacifist.