George Grube
Canadian classics scholar and translator (1899–1982)
Georges Maximilien Antoine Grube (2 August 1899 – 13 December 1982) was a Canadian scholar, university professor and democratic socialist political activist. Grube was a classicist and translator of Plato, Aristotle, Longinus and Marcus Aurelius. He was one of the founders of the New Democratic Party of Canada and ran unsuccessfully for election as an NDP candidate in Canadian federal elections.
Biography
Grube was born in Antwerp, Belgium, on 2 August 1899, and was educated at King Edward's School in Birmingham, England. He served as a translator for the Belgian Army, attached to the British Expeditionary Force, during the First World War. Following demobilisation in 1919 Grube studied the classics tripos at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and was awarded a first-class BA in 1922 and MA (Cantab) in 1925.
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 (U of T). He became the head of the classics department in 1931. Grube was a socialist, and serving in World War I turned him into a passionate pacifist. During his tenure at the U of T, he was involved in the Toronto branch of the League for Social Reconstruction (LSR), serving as president from 1934 to 1935.
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