Jacob Grimm
Born
January 04, 1785 in Hanau, Germany
Died
September 20, 1863
Popularity
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Biography
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.