Heinrich Wilhelm Grauert

Heinrich Wilhelm Grauert (25 March 1804, in Amsterdam – 10 January 1852, in Vienna) was a Dutch born, German historian and classical philologist.

From 1821 he studied history and philology at the University of Bonn, where he was a pupil of Karl Friedrich Heinrich and August Ferdinand Naeke.

In 1825 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the fabulist Aesop, titled De Aesopo et fabulis Aesopicis.

In 1850 he became a professor of history and director of the newly revised historical seminary at the University of Vienna, but died soon afterwards on 10 January 1852, aged 47.

[1] He was also the author of several articles in the journal Rheinisches Museum für Philologie, Geschichte und griechische Philosophie.