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As a portrait painter he is well
known. He drew the likeness of Charles V., as well as that of
Maximilian; and his bust of Margrave Philip in the Munich Gallery tells
us that he was connected with the reigning family of Baden as early as
1514. At a later period he had sittings from Margrave Christopher of
Baden, Ottilia his wife, and all their children, and the picture
containing these portraits is still in the grand-ducal gallery at
Carlsruhe. Like Durer and Cranach, Grun became a hearty supporter of the
Reformation. He was present at the diet of Augsburg in 1518, and one of
his woodcuts represents Luther under the protection of the Holy Ghost,
which hovers over him in the shape of a dove.
GRUNBERG, a town of Germany, in Prussian Silesia, beautifully situated
between two hills on an affluent of the Oder, and on the railway from
Breslau to Stettin via Kustrin, 36 m. N.N.W. of Glogau. Pop. (1905)
20,987. It has a Roman Catholic and two Evangelical churches, a modern
school and a technical (textiles) school. There are manufactures of
cloth, paper, machinery, straw hats, leather and tobacco. The prosperity
of the town depends chiefly on the vine culture in the neighbourhood,
from which, besides the exportation of a large quantity of grapes, about
700,000 gallons of wine are manufactured annually.
GRUNDTVIG, NIKOLAI FREDERIK SEVERIN (1783-1872), Danish poet, statesman
and divine, was born at the parsonage of Udby in Zealand on the 8th of
September 1783. In 1791 he was sent to live at the house of a priest in
Jutland, and studied at the free school of Aarhuus until he went up to
the university of Copenhagen in 1800. At the close of his university
life he made Icelandic his special study, until in 1805 he took the
position of tutor in a house on the island of Langeland. The next three
years were spent in the study of Shakespeare, Schiller and Fichte. His
cousin, the philosopher Henrik Steffens, had returned to Copenhagen in
1802 full of the teaching of Schelling and his lectures and the early
poetry of Ohlenschlager opened the eyes of Grundtvig to the new era in
literature. His first work, _On the Songs in the Edda_, attracted no
attention. Returning to Copenhagen in 1808 he achieved greater success
with his _Northern Mythology_, and again in 1809-1811 with a long epic
poem, the _Decline of the Heroic Life in the North_. The boldness of the
theological views expressed in his first sermon in 1810 offended the
ecclesiastical authorities, and he retired to a country parish as his
father's assistant for a while. From 1812 to 1817 he published five or
six works, of which the _Rhyme of Roskilde_ is the most remarkable. From
1816 to 1819 he was editor of a polemical journal entitled _Dannevirke_,
and in 1818 to 1822 appeared his Danish paraphrases (6 vols.) of Saxo
Grammaticus and Snorri. During these years he was preaching against
rationalism to an enthusiastic congregation in Copenhagen, but he
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