Jacob Grimm
  • Birthplace

    Hanau, Germany

  • Birthday
    January 4, 1785

    Deathday
    September 20, 1863

Jacob Grimm

German philologist, jurist, and mythologist. He is known as the discoverer of Grimm's law (linguistics), the co-author with his brother Wilhelm of the monumental Deutsches Wörterbuch, the author of Deutsche Mythologie and, more popularly, as one of the Brothers Grimm and the editor of Grimm's Fairy Tales.

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