Writer
Wilhelm Grimm
Wilhelm Grimm
- Date of birth
- Date of death
- Age at death
- 73
- Place of birth
- Hanau, Germany
- Citizenship
- Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel, Kingdom of Prussia
- Occupations
- lexicographer, anthropologist, librarian, writer, law librarian, children's writer, pedagogue, linguist, literary scholar, Germanist, jurist, university teacher, mythographer, collector of fairy tales, philologist, professor, editor
- Languages
- German, Danish
Biography
Wilhelm Carl Grimm (also Karl; 24 February 1786 – 16 December 1859) was a German writer, philologist and anthropologist. He was the younger brother of Jacob Grimm, of the literary duo the Brothers Grimm.
Education
- University of Marburg
- Frederick William University Berlin
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