Writer
Jacob Grimm
Jacob Grimm
- Date of birth
- Date of death
- Age at death
- 78
- Place of birth
- Hanau, Germany
- Citizenship
- Electorate of Hesse, Kingdom of Prussia
- Occupations
- jurist, lexicographer, anthropologist, linguist, philologist, mythologist, librarian, translator, law librarian, children's writer, university teacher, literary scholar, legal historian, secretary of legation, poet lawyer, mythographer, writer, politician, collector of fairy tales, historian, Germanist
- Languages
- German
Biography
Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm (4 January 1785 – 20 September 1863), 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.
Education
- University of Marburg
Awards
- Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order
- Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art1853
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Knight of the Legion of Honour1841
Education and awards: Wikidata information may be incomplete. Wikidata · Updated: 2026-10-27
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