Grimm, Jacob (Ludwig Carl) and Wilhelm (Carl)
- Grimm, Jacob (Ludwig Carl) and Wilhelm (Carl)
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known as the Brothers Grimm
born Jan. 4, 1785, Hanau, Hesse-Kassel
died Sept. 20, 1863, Berlin
born Feb. 24, 1786, Hanau
died Dec. 16, 1859, Berlin
German folklorists and philologists.
They spent most of their lives in literary research as librarians and professors at the Universities of Göttingen and Berlin. They are most famous for
Kinder-und Hausmärchen (1812–15), known in English as
Grimm's Fairy Tales, a collection of 200 tales taken mostly from oral sources, which helped establish the science of
folklore. Together and separately, they also produced many other scholarly studies and editions. Wilhelm's chief solo work was
The German Heroic Tale (1829); Jacob's
German Mythology (1835) was a highly influential study of pre-Christian German faith and superstition. Jacob's extensive
Deutsche Grammatik (1819–37), on the grammars of all Germanic languages, elaborates the important linguistic principle now known as Grimm's law. In the 1840s the brothers began work on the
Deutsches Wörterbuch, a vast historical dictionary of the German language that required several generations to complete and remains the standard work of its kind.
Jacob (
right) and Wilhelm Grimm, oil portrait by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann, 1855; in the ...
Courtesy of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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