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Jacob Grimm
Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm, also known as Ludwig Karl, was a German author, linguist, philologist, jurist, and folklorist. He formulated Grimm's law of linguistics, and was the co-author of the Deutsches Wörterbuch, the author of Deutsche Mythologie, and the editor of Grimms' Fairy Tales. He was the older brother of Wilhelm Grimm; together, they were the literary duo known as the Brothers Grimm.
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Born 4 January 1785 · Died 20 September 1863 · Q6701
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1863· 1 entry
Died 1863-09-20.
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1853· 1 entry
Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1853).
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1841· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1841).
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1840· 1 entry
His time being afterwards taken up mainly by the dictionary
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1828· 1 entry
The brothers both expected promotion, and they were dissatisfied when the role of the first librarian was given to Rommel, the keeper of the archives
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1822· 2 entries
The book appeared in a second edition (really a new work, for, as Grimm himself says in the preface, he had to "mow the first crop down to the ground")
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“mow the first crop down to the ground”
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1819· 1 entry
Treated the inflections of all these languages, and included a general introduction in which he vindicated the importance of a historical study of the German language against the quasi-philosophical methods then in vogue
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1814· 1 entry
Was sent to Paris to demand restitution of books taken by the French, and he attended the Congress of Vienna as Secretary of Legation in 1814–1815
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1813· 1 entry
After the expulsion of Bonaparte and the reinstatement of an elector, Grimm was appointed Secretary of Legation accompanying the Hessian minister to the headquarters of the allied army
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1812· 1 entry
Published the two ancient fragments of the Hildebrandslied and the Weißenbrunner Gebet, Jacob having discovered what until then had never been suspected — namely the alliteration in these poems
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1808· 1 entry
Soon after the death of his mother, he was appointed superintendent of the private library of Jérôme Bonaparte, King of Westphalia, into which Hesse-Kassel had been incorporated by Napoleon
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1802· 1 entry
Went to the University of Marburg, where he studied law, a profession for which he had been intended by his father
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1785· 1 entry
Born 1785-01-04.
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