Jacob Grimm Writer

Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm (4 January 1785 – 20 September 1863) was a German philologist, jurist and mythologist. He is known as the discoverer of Grimm's Law (linguistics), the author (with his brother Wilhelm) of the monumental Deutsches Wörterbuch, the author of Deutsche Mythologie and, more popularly, as one of the Brothers Grimm, as the editor of Grimm's Fairy Tales.

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Jacob Grimm
Alias (AKA)Grimm Jakob Ludwig Karl; Grimm Jakob
Birth dateJanuary 04, 1785
Birth nameJacob Ludwig Carl Grimm
Birth place
Holy Roman Empire , Hanau , Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel
Date of deathSeptember 20, 1863
Place of death
Berlin , Kingdom of Prussia

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