GROAT'S-WORTH OF WIT, A, BOUGHT WITH A MILLION OF REPENTANCE. A tract by Robert Greene (q.v.) discovered after his death, together with a pathetic letter to his wife. It was licensed in 1592, but apparently not published until 1596. The story is in part autobiographical, and con tains an allusion to Shakespeare as "an upstart crow." GRoBEN, gre'ben, OTTO FRIEDRICH VON DER (1657-1728). A German traveler, born at Pret ten, Prussia. At the age of sixteen he went to the Orient, where he traveled for many years. In 1682 he was sent by Frederick William of Brandenburg to the western coast of Africa, where, in the following year, he founded Fort Grossfriedrichsburg, named in honor of the Great Elector, on the coast of Guinea. An ac count of his tours is published in his work enti tled Orientalische Reisebeschreibung des bran denburgischen adeliehen Pilgers, nebst der bran denburgischen Schiffahrt nach Guinea and der Verrichtung zu Morea (1694), the last-mentioned reference bearing upon the author's subsequent experiences in the wars of Poland ald Venice against the Turks.
GRiBER, gre'ber, GUSTAV (1844—). A Ger man scholar in Romance literature and linguis tics. He was born in Leipzig, and was educated there. He was docent at Zurich (1871-74), then became professer at Breslau, and in 1880 went to the University of Strassburg. In 1877 he became editor of the Zeitschrift far romanische Philologie, and in 1880 began the publication, as chief, of the Grundriss der romanischen Philologie, to which he contributed articles on Latin litera ture during the Middle Ages, and on the history of Romance philology. Grober's other works in clude: Die handschriftlichen Gestaltungen der Chanson de Geste von I'ierabras (1869) ; Die alt. franzosischen Romanzen and Pastourellen ( 1872) ; Carmina Clericorum (7th ed. 1890) ; Zur Volks kiln& aus Concilbeschliissen and Kapitularien (1894) ; Abriss der lateinischen Litteratur des Mittelalters (1893); and Abriss der franzosischen Litteratur des Mittelalters (1897 ).