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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: 4.1 · 394,323 ratings · 19,560 reviews · 5,383 distinct works � Similar authors
The Complete Grimm's Fairy ...
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Snow White
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4.09 avg rating — 4,554 ratings — published 1812 — 508 editions
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The Brothers Grimm: Illumin...
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4.14 avg rating — 3,906 ratings — published 1817 — 21 editions
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The Annotated Brothers Grimm
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Hansel and Gretel
3.82 avg rating — 3,588 ratings — published 1812 — 564 editions
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Rapunzel
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3.80 avg rating — 3,570 ratings — published 1812 — 16 editions
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Sleeping Beauty
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Rumpelstiltsken
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Snow White and Rose Red
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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.”
― The Brothers Grimm
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October 2016 Old School Classic Poll

 
  40 votes, 26.5%

1320, The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, 798 pages
 
  31 votes, 20.5%

 
  16 votes, 10.6%

1796, The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis, 386 pages
 
  15 votes, 9.9%

1895, Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz, 579 pages
 
  15 votes, 9.9%

1848, Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell, 437 pages
 
  14 votes, 9.3%

1832, Indiana by George Sand, 278 pages
 
  7 votes, 4.6%

1864, Uncle Silas by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, 477 pages
 
  7 votes, 4.6%

 
  6 votes, 4.0%

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