Cat skin brothers grimm biography
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Grimm's Fairy Tales: Cat-Skin
This book is a member of the special collection Special Collection: The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
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Author Bio for Grimm, Jacob Ludwig Carl
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm (4 January 1785 – 20 September 1863) was a German philologist, jurist, and mythologist.
Cat skin brothers grimm biography
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.
Both Brothers were attracted from the beginning by all national poetry, whether in the form of epics, ballads or popular tales.
They published In 1816–1818 a collection of legends culled from diverse sources and published the two-volume Deutsche Sagen (German Legends). At the same time they collected all the folktales they could find, partly from the mouths of the people, partly from manuscripts and books, and