The Brothers Grimm (German: Die Brüder Grimm or Die Gebrüder Grimm), Jacob Grimm(January 4, 1785 – September 20, 1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (February 24, 1786 – December 16, 1859), were German academics, linguists, and cultural researchers who collected folklore and published several collections of it as Grimm's Fairy Tales, which became very popular. Jacob also did academic work in philology, related to how the sounds in words shift over time (Grimm's law); he was also a lawyer whose legal work, German Legal Antiquities (Deutsche Rechtsaltertümer) in 1828, made him a valuable source of testimony about the origin and meaning of much legal historical idiom usage and symbolism.They can be counted along with Karl Lachmann and Georg Friedrich Benecke as founding fathers of Germanic philology and German studies. Late in life they undertook the compilation of the first German dictionary: Wilhelm died in December 1859, having completed the letter D; Jacob survived his brother by nearly four years, completing the letters A, B, C and E, and was working on Frucht (fruit) when he collapsed at his desk.
The first collection of fairy tales Children's and Household Tales ((Kinder-und Hausmärchen) was published in 1812 and it
contained more than 200 fairy tales. Some collections of the stories had
already been written by Charles
Perrault in the late 1600s, with somewhat unexpected versions. In
the original published forms, the Grimm's fairy tales were dark and violent, in
contrast to the lighter, modern "Disney versions" of those tales.
They are among the
best-known story tellers of European folk tales, and their work popularized
such stories as "Cinderella"
(Aschenputtel), "The Frog Prince" (Der Froschkönig), "Hansel and Gretel"
(Hänsel und Gretel), "Rapunzel",
"Rumpelstiltskin"
(Rumpelstilzchen), "Sleeping
Beauty" (Dornröschen), and "Snow White"
(Schneewittchen).
Life
Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm (also Karl) and Wilhelm Karl Grimm were born on 4 January 1785 and 24 February 1786 respectively, in the Wolfgang section of Hanau, Germany near Frankfurt in Hessen, the sons of Philipp Wilhelm Grimm,a jurist and bailiff with offices atSchlüchtern and Steinau, originally from Hanau, and Dorothea Grimm, née Zimmer, a former neighbor and the daughter of anapothecary. They were among a family of nine children, six of whom survived infancy.Their early childhood was spent in the countryside. The Grimm family lived near the magistrate's house between 1790 and 1796 while the father was employed by the Prince of Hessen.
When the eldest brother, Jakob, was 11 years old, their father, Philip Wilhelm, died and the family moved into a cramped urban residence. Two years later, the children's grandfather also died, leaving their mother to struggle to support them in reduced circumstances. "They urged fidelity to the spoken text, without
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