Jacob ludwig carl grimm biography sample

Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm was a German author, linguist, philologist, jurist and folklorist and was known as the discoverer of Grimm’s law of linguistics.

He was also co-author of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales. He was born in Hanau, Germany on 4th January 1785 and died in Berlin, Germany on 20th September 1863 aged 78.

Major Works

“Deutsche Grammatik” (German Grammar) 4 volumes, (1819, 1826, 1831, 1837)
“Deutsche Rechtsaltertümer” (German Legal Antiquities) (1828) 
“Deutsche Mythologie” (German Mythology) (1835)
German Dictionary (1852)

Note: “Grimms’ Fairy Tales” or “Kinder- und Hausmärchen” (Children’s and Household Tales) is a joint collection of 86 stories by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm first published in 1812.

Biography

Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm is born on 4th January 1785 in Hanau, Germany.

He was the son of a solicitor and town clerk, Phillip Wilhelm Grimm and hi