Jacob Grimm

Known for Writing

Jacob Grimm's portrait

Details

Birthday: January 04, 1785

Deathday: September 20, 1863

Place of birth: Hanau, Germany

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.