Adolph Eduard Grube (18 May 1812, in

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– 23 June 1880, in Breslau) was a German

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. He served as a professor at the

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before moving to

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Life and work

Grube was born in Königsberg (Królewiec) to lawyer Karl Eduard (1783–1833) and Ernestine Luise née Mertens (1788–1857) and went to the

Collegium Fridericianum The Collegium Fridericianum (also known as the Friedrichskolleg, Friedrichskollegium, and Friedrichs-Kollegium) was a prestigious Gymnasium (Germany), gymnasium in Königsberg, Prussia. Alumni were known as ''Friderizianer''.Gause, p. 716 History ...

before entering university. He was attracted to natural history thanks to a teacher named Bulack. At university he attended the comparative anatomy lectures of

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and Karl Friedrich Burdach. He graduated in 1830 and continued to work on a doctorate with a dissertation on the vascular system of frogs in 1834. He then travelled to Italy and Sicily. He habilitated in 1836 at the

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(then in

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) and became an associate professor in 1843. He married Józefina Schäfer, daughter of a Warsaw factory owner. In 1844 he accepted a professor position at Universität Dorpat (then in

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, now Tartu) where he influenced a number of students including Konstanty Górski and Benedykt Tadeusz Dybowski. When in 1856, a professor position opened up in the Universität Breslau (now the

University of Wrocław The University of Wrocław (, UWr; ) is a public research university in Wrocław, Poland. It is the largest institution of higher learning in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, with over 100,000 graduates since 1945, including some 1,900 researcher ...

) with the death of Johann Gravenhorst, he took the position. Here he helped expand the museum collections with polychaetes from Southeast Asia from

Carl Semper Carl Gottfried Semper (July 6, 1832, Altona, Hamburg, Altona, Duchy of Holstein – May 29, 1893, Würzburg) was a German ethnologist and animal ecologist. His brother Georg Semper took an interest in the lepidoptera while his brother Johannes Ott ...

, spiders from Siberia collected by Dybowski, and birds collected by H. A. Bernstein. He made collections trips in the Mediterranean, accompanied by Dybowski. He took a special interest in the

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and described more than 500 species. He worked on other invertebrate groups as well. He was one of the early scientific explorers of the

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. In 1864 he interevened in the trial of Benedykt Dybowski with Chancellor Bismarck and helped commute a death sentence on Dybowski, which was made into 12 years of exile. During the

January Uprising The January Uprising was an insurrection principally in Russia's Kingdom of Poland that was aimed at putting an end to Russian occupation of part of Poland and regaining independence. It began on 22 January 1863 and continued until the last i ...

, Grube's son who worked in the Prussian army was put on trial for assisting people join insurgent forces.

Ferdinand von Roemer Carl Ferdinand von Roemer (5 January 1818 – 14 December 1891), German geologist, had originally been educated for the legal profession at Göttingen, but became interested in geology, and abandoning law in 1840, studied science at the Univer ...

married Grube's sister-in-law Katarzyna Schäfer. In 1863-64, Grube was rector for the University of Wrocław, and in 1859-60 and 1879-80 as dean. He died at Wrocław. '' Chirocephalus grubei'' and '' Eubranchipus grubii'' were named after him by Dybowski.

Works

An incomplete list of publications includes: *1850. "Die Familien der Anneliden". ''Archiv für Naturgeschichte'' Berlin, 16(1): 249–364 *1866 "Beschreibungen neuer von der Novara-Expedition mitgebrachter Anneliden und einer neuen landplanarie". ''Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-königlichen zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien'' 16: 173–184. *1866 "Eine neue Annelida, zunächst einer nordischen, in der Nähe der Ophelien und Scalibregmen zu stellenden Annelide, Euzonus arcticus". ''Jahresbericht der Schlesischen Gesellschaft für vaterländische Kultur'' 43: 64–65. *1866 "Neue Anneliden aus den Gattungen Eunice, Hesione, Lamprophaes, und Travisia". ''Jahresbericht der Schlesischen Gesellschaft für vaterländische Kultur'' 44: 64-66. *1866 "Resultate einer Revision der Euniceen". ''Jahresbericht der Schlesischen Gesellschaft für vaterländische Kultur'' 44: 66–68. *1872. "Über die Gattung Lycastis und ein par neue Arten derselben". ''Jahres-Bericht Schleis. Gesell.'' 49:47–48.

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