George Grube – Wikipedia

Georges Maximilien Antoine Grube (2 August 1899 – 13 December 1982) was a Canadian politician and activist.
He was a classicist and translator of Plato, Aristotle, Longino and Marcus Aurelio. He was one of the founders of the new Democratic Party of Canada and has been successfully nominated for the election as a candidate of the ENP to the Canadian federal elections.

He was born in Antwerp, in Belgium, on August 2, 1899, ^[2] and was educated in the United Kingdom. ^[3] He served as a translator for the Belgian army, attached to the British Expeditionary force during the First World War. ^[4] He attended Emmanuel College of the University of Cambridge, where he obtained the Master in 1925. ^{[2] [3]}

He moved to Canada in 1928, to start his career as a professor of classics at the University of Trinity College of the University of Toronto (UOFT). ^[4] He became head of the Department of Classics in 1931. ^[3]

Grube was a socialist and, after serving during the First World War, he turned into a pacifist passionate. ^[3] During his mandate at the UOFT, he was involved in the Toronto branch of the League for Social Reconstruction (LSR), holding the office of President from 1934 to 1935. ^[3] When the LSR took control of the magazine almost in bankruptcy, Canadian Forum Grube became the publisher from 1937 to 1941. ^[2] It was during his mandate to the magazine that he became the main means of communication for the LSR publications. ^[5]

From 1944 to 1946, Grube was the president of the executive of the Ontario Co-operational Commonwealth Federation (CCF), often as public spokesman for the party after his leader, Ted Jolliffe, lost his seat in the general elections of ONTARY on June 4, 1945. ^{[6] [7]} He also successfully raced several times for the headquarters of the Chamber of Municipalities in what was then known as the Broadview electoral district in the 1940s. ^[2]

In August 1961 he was one of the co-presidents who presided over the foundation convention of the new Democratic Party in Ottawa. ^[2] In 1968 he won the Award of Merit by the American Philological Association (APA) for his 1965 book The Greek and Roman Critics . ^[8] The APA awarded the prize for “The exceptional contribution to the classical scholarship”. ^[8] Two years later, while he was still head of the Department of Classics, he withdrew from the EUFT in 1970. ^[4]

He continued to write new translations of Plato’s works until his death. In his last few years, he has had health problems and in the end he sold them to Toronto on 13 December 1982. ^[4]

• Plato’s thought . Londra: Methuen, 1935.
• The drama of Euripides . Londra: Methuen, 1941.
• On great writing, translation of On the Sublime , di Longino. New York: Liberal Arts Press, 1957.
• On poetry and style, translation with introduction of Poetics , by Aristotle. New York: Liberal Arts Press, 1958.
• A Greek critic, translation with introduction of On style , of Demetrio di Falero. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1961.
• Meditations, translation of the same by Marcus Aurelio. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1963.
• I Greek critics are Romanian . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1965.
• As the Greeks looked at literature . Cincinnati: University of Cincinnati Press, 1967.
• The Republic . Indianapolis: Hackett, 1974.
• Menon of platton . Indianapolis: Hackett, 1976.
• Plato’s Phadon . Indianapolis: Hackett, 1977.
• Five dialogues, translation of Evalrone , Apology of Socrates , Critone , Menone It is Phadon , by Plato. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1981.

• Michiel Horn, The League for Social Reconstruction: Intellectual origins of the democratic left in Canada, 1930–1942 , Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1980, ISBN 0-8020-5487-0.
• Anthony J. Podcki, Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists , a cura di Ward W. Briggs Jr., Wesport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 1994, ISBN 0-313-24560-6.