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Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm (4 January 1785 – 20 September 1863), also known as Ludwig Karl, was a German author, linguist, philologist, jurist, and folklorist. He formulated Grimm's law of linguistics, and was the co-author of the Deutsches Wörterbuch, the author of Deutsche Mythologie, and the editor of Grimms' Fairy Tales.
The Brothers Grimm were German folklorists and linguists who are best known for their Grimm’s Fairy Tales (1812–22), which led to the modern study of folklore. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm together compiled other collections of folk music and folk literature, and Jacob did important work in historical linguistics and philology.
The Brothers Grimm (die Brüder Grimm or die Gebrüder Grimm), Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm (1786–1859), were German academics who together collected and published folklore.
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm (Hanau, January 4, 1785 — Berlin, September 20, 1863), German philologist, jurist and mythologist, was born at Hanau, in Hesse-Kassel. He is best known as a recorder of folklore, or fairy tales, one of the Brothers Grimm.
May 20, 2024 · Grimm’s Fairy Tales is a classic and influential collection of folklore by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, first published in two volumes as Kinder -und Hausmarchen (1812–15; ‘Children’s and Household Tales’) and later revised and enlarged seven times between 1819 and 1857.
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Sep 24, 2019 · The world's most famous collection of children's stories began as an academic study for adults, when Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm collected German folklore in the 1800s.
German philologist and folklorist Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm in 1822 formulated Grimm's Law, the basis for much of modern comparative linguistics. With his brother Wilhelm Karl Grimm (1786-1859), he collected Germanic folk tales and published them as Grimm's Fairy Tales (1812-1815).
