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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

Combine Editions

Average rating: 4.09 · 413,806 ratings · 20,963 reviews · 5,773 distinct works • Similar authors
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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Rapunzel
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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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Quotes by Jacob Grimm  (?)
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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! ”
― Jacob Grimm
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“Skin white as snow, lips red as blood, and hair black as ebony.”
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2nd Qtr (Apr-Jun) 2021 Long Read Poll

Dune by Frank Herbert, 1965, 604 pages
 
  60 votes, 25.1%

 
  53 votes, 22.2%

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, 1924, 706 pages
 
  34 votes, 14.2%

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry, 1985, 960 pages
 
  33 votes, 13.8%

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, 1995, 603 pages
 
  25 votes, 10.5%

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, 1996, 1088 pages
 
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  12 votes, 5.0%

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