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Wilhelm Carl Grimm (also Karl; 24 February 1786 – 16 December 1859) was a German author and anthropologist. He was the younger brother of Jacob Grimm , of the literary duo the Brothers Grimm . Life and work
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm lived in this house in Steinau from 1791 to 1796.. Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm and Wilhelm Carl Grimm were born on 4 January 1785 and 24 February 1786, respectively, in Hanau in the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel, within the Holy Roman Empire (present-day Germany), to Philipp Wilhelm Grimm, a jurist, and Dorothea Grimm (née Zimmer), daughter of a Kassel city councilman.
May 29, 2024 · 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.
Apr 2, 2014 · Wilhelm Carl Grimm was born on February 24, 1786, in the town of Hanau, Germany, to Dorothea and Philipp Grimm. Wilhelm Grimm was the second oldest of six siblings, and would later embark on an ...
Jul 6, 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. The work was first translated into English as German Popular Tales, 2 vol. (1823–26), and has since been translated under numerous titles.
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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 Universities of Göttingen and Berlin.
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Learn about the surprising history behind the world’s most famous collection of folk tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, two young German librarians who published seven editions of their tales from 1812 to 1857. Discover how they collected, edited, and transformed the stories to reflect their philological and cultural interests.
