Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm

Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859), born in Hanau, studied law at Marburg, where Savigny introduced them to early poetry, and worked together all their lives: librarians in Kassel, professors at Göttingen, from which they were expelled with five colleagues for protesting against a coup by the King of Hanover. As philologists, they formulated a law of consonant shift, collected German legends and began the great German Dictionary.

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• TaleGrimm's Fairy TalesKinder- und HausmärchenJacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm · 1812LiteraturePublic domain