Grube was born in Antwerp, Belgium, on 2 August 1899, He served as a translator for the Belgian Army, attached to the
British Expeditionary Force, during the
First World War. From 1944 to 1946, Grube was the President of the Ontario
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation's (CCF) executive, often acting as the public spokesperson for the party after its leader,
Ted Jolliffe, lost his seat in the Ontario general election on 4 June 1945. He also ran unsuccessfully several times for the House of Commons seat in what was then known as the
Broadview electoral district during the 1940s. The APA gave him the award for "outstanding contribution to classical scholarship." He continued writing new translations of Plato's works until his death. In his later years, he had health issues, and he finally succumbed to them in Toronto on 13 December 1982. ==Bibliography==