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Jacob Grimm


Born
in Hanau, Hesse-Kassel, Germany
January 04, 1785

Died
September 20, 1863

Genre
Folk Tales, Fairy Tales, Nonfiction

Influences
Giambattista Basile, Vuk Karadžić ...more


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).

Indo-European stop consonants, represented in Germanic, underwent the regular changes that Grimm's Law describes; this law essentially states that Indo-European p shifted to Germanic f, t shifted to th, and k shifted to h. Indo-European b shifted to Germanic p, d shifted to t, and g shifted to k. Indo-European bh shifted to Germanic b, dh shifted to d, and gh shifted to g.

This jurist and mythologist also authored the monumental German Dictionary and his ...more

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The Complete Grimm's Fairy ...
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Snow White
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The Brothers Grimm: Illumin...
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The Annotated Brothers Grimm
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Hansel and Gretel
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Sleeping Beauty
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Snow White and Rose Red
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Grimm's Grimmest
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“I'm Death, and I make sure that everyone is equal.”
― Brothers Grimm
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“How often when we are comfortable, we begin to long for something new! ”
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“Skin white as snow, lips red as blood, and hair black as ebony.”
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