Groth

Groth, Klaus, a Platt-Deutsch writer, was born in Holstein in 1819. For a time he taught in a school of his native place, but later travelled in Germany and Switzerland, and in 1866 became professor of German language and literature in Kiel University. Among his chief works were a poem, Quickborn, a collection of poems in the Ditmarsh dialect (1852), prose stories of village life, and rhymes for children. He also wrote poems in Hoch-Deutsch.