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  1. 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.

  2. Mar 11, 2024 · The Brothers Grimm were two German folklorists and linguists who are today best known for their Kinder- und Hausmärchen (1812–22). This collection of stories, called Grimms Fairy Tales in the English-speaking world, led to the modern study of folklore .

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  4. The Brothers Grimm ( German: Die Brüder Grimm, also Gebrüder Grimm) were the brothers Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm. They were German academics and most famous for their collections of folktales and fairy tales, and for their work in linguistics . The Grimm brothers both became linguists. They are the inventors of German philology.

  5. The Brothers Grimm ( Brüder Grimm, in their own words, not Gebrüder —for there were five surviving brothers, among them Ludwig Emil Grimm, the painter) were Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Hessian professors who were best known for publishing collections of folk tales and fairy tales, [1] and for their work in linguistics, relating to how the sounds in...

  6. Brothers Grimm, German folklorists and philologists. Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm (b. Jan. 4, 1785, Hanau, Hesse-Kassel [Germany]—d. Sept. 20, 1863, Berlin) and Wilhelm Carl Grimm (b. Feb. 24, 1786, Hanau, Hesse-Kassel [Germany]—d. Dec. 16, 1859, Berlin) spent most of their lives in literary research as librarians and professors at the ...

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