Early Years and Education
Gruber became a Jesuit at the young age of 15, in 1755 and did most of his formation and studies in Austria: Latin, Greek and Philosophy in Graz (1757-60), languages in Vienna (1760-61), Mathematics in Trnava, Slovachia (1761-62) and Theology in Graz (1763-67) where he was ordained priest in 1766.
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