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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

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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 Tales by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Josef Scharl (Illustrator) 4.23 avg rating — 221,426 ratings — published 1812 — 3547 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Snow White by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Ειρήνη Μάρρα (Translator), Camille Rose Garcia (Illustrator), Frédéric Kédémos 4.08 avg rating — 4,732 ratings — published 1812 — 499 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Brothers Grimm: Illuminated Fairy Tales, Vol. 1 by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Kali Ciesemier (Illustrator) 4.14 avg rating — 3,990 ratings — published 1817 — 67 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Annotated Brothers Grimm by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Maria Tatar (Editor) 4.44 avg rating — 3,594 ratings — published 2004 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hansel and Gretel 3.82 avg rating — 3,758 ratings — published 1812 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rapunzel by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm 3.80 avg rating — 3,750 ratings — published 1812 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sleeping Beauty 3.87 avg rating — 2,025 ratings — published 1697	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Snow White and Rose Red 3.78 avg rating — 1,576 ratings — published 1827 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Robber Bridegroom (Penguin Little Black Classics, #68) by Jacob Grimm, William Karl Grimm, David Luke (Translator) 3.63 avg rating — 1,505 ratings — published 1812 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grimm's Grimmest by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Tracy Arah Dockray (Illustrator) 4.02 avg rating — 1,223 ratings — published 1997 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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1936, Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, 1037 pages

14 votes, 31.1%

1605, Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 982 pages

8 votes, 17.8%

1981, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, 647 pages

5 votes, 11.1%

1812, The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm, 880 pages

5 votes, 11.1%

1880, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 796 pages

4 votes, 8.9%

1914, Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, 684 pages

3 votes, 6.7%

1901, Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann, 731 pages

2 votes, 4.4%

1982, North and South by John Jakes, 812 pages

2 votes, 4.4%

1962, The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, 640 pages

1 vote, 2.2%

1941, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West, 1181 pages

1 vote, 2.2%

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