Brothers Grimm

Jacob Grimm, born in 1785, and his brother Wilhelm, born in 1786, grew up in Hanau and Steinau in the German state of Hesse-Kassel, two of the nine children who survived infancy in their family. Their father, a lawyer and official, died in 1796, leaving the family poor. Both brothers studied law at the University of Marburg, where they became interested in old German literature and language. Beginning around 1806 they collected folk tales from friends, family members and storytellers, and in 1812 they published the first volume of Children's and Household Tales, which grew over later editions to more than two hundred stories, including Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel, Snow White and Rumpelstiltskin. Wilhelm in particular revised the stories for later editions. The brothers were also major scholars: Jacob wrote a German grammar and formulated rules of sound change now called Grimm's law, and together they began a great German dictionary. They taught at Göttingen and later in Berlin. Wilhelm died in 1859 and Jacob in 1863.

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Faith: Their father and grandfather were ministers of the Calvinistic Reformed Church. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica