Jacob, with his younger brother Wilhelm ( born on 24 February 1786 ), were sent in 1798 to the public school at Kassel.

Meanwhile Wilhelm had received an appointment in the Kassel library, and in 1816 Jacob was made second librarian under Volkel.

Consequently, they moved next year to Göttingen where Jacob received the appointment of professor and librarian, and Wilhelm that of under-librarian.

Among his students were Asmus Jacob Carstens, sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen, and painters J. L. Lund and Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, both of whom took over his vacated professorship at the Academy after his death.

* January 15 – Johann Jacob Friedrich Wilhelm Parrot, Baltic German naturalist and traveller ( b. 1792 )

Wilhelm ( left ) and Jacob Grimm ( right ) in an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann

The Brothers Grimm ( or Die Gebrüder Grimm ), Jacob ( January 4, 1785 – September 20, 1863 ) and Wilhelm Grimm ( February 24, 1786 – December 16, 1859 ), were German academics, linguists, cultural researchers, and authors who together collected folklore.

Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, born on 4 January 1785, was 13 months older than his brother Wilhelm Carl Grimm ( b. 24 February 1786 ).

As eldest living son, at age 11, Jacob quickly assumed adult responsibilities ( shared with Wilhelm ) for the next two years, adhering to the advice of their grandfather who continually exhorted them to be industrious.

Although the two brothers differed in temperament — Jacob was introspective and Wilhelm outgoing ( although he often suffered from ill-health )— they shared a strong work ethic and excelled in their studies.

Each brother graduated at the head of his class: Jacob in 1803 and Wilhelm ( who missed a year of school due to scarlet fever ) in 1804.

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in an 1843 drawing by their younger brother Ludwig Emil Grimm

Jacob, who never married, would continue to live in the household with Wilhelm and Dortchen.

There they took employment at the University of Göttingen — Jacob as a professor and head librarian and Wilhelm as professor.

In 1835 Jacob published the well-regarded German Mythology ( Deutsche Mythologie ); Wilhelm continued to edit and prepare for publication the third edition of Kinder-und Hausmärchen.

Jacob began his own research on German legal traditions and the history of the German language, published in the late 1840s and early 1850s, while Wilhelm produced new editions of the Hausmärchen and research in medieval literature.

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Together, Wilhelm and Henriette had four children: Jacob Grimm ( 3 April 1826 – 15 December 1826 ), Herman Friedrich Grimm ( 6 January 1828 – 16 June 1901 ), Rudolf Georg Grimm ( 31 March 1830 – 13 November 1889 ), and Barbara Auguste Luise Pauline Marie ( 21 August 1832 – 9 February 1919 ).

" Grimm, Jacob Ludwig Carl " and " Grimm, Wilhelm Carl ".

The Allgemeine deutsche Biographie gives the names as " Grimm: Jacob ( Ludwig Karl )" and " Grimm: Wilhelm ( Karl )".

Another well-known version was recorded by the German brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the 19th century.

The town's name of " Warden " comes from its Bessarabian German heritage and means " worthy " or " treasured " as may be noted in the Das Deutsche Woerterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm.

Sejong the Great is one of the five linguistic scholars, with Samuel Johnson, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm and Elias Lönnrot, depicted as a portrait in a national currency.

Jacob Grimm suggests the name of a hypothetical god or hero, Aper or Aprus.

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Key contributions were made by the Danish scholars Rasmus Rask and Karl Verner and the German scholar Jacob Grimm.

Using comparative linguistic evidence from continental Germanic sources, the 19th century scholar Jacob Grimm proposed the existence of a cognate form of Ēostre among the pre-Christian beliefs of the continental Germanic peoples, whose name he reconstructed as * Ostara.

A masculine Elb is reconstructed from the plural by Jacob Grimm, Deutsches Wörterbuch, who rejects Elfe as a ( then, in the 1830s ) recent anglicism.

Jacob Grimm discusses " Wights and Elves " comparatively in chapter 17 of his Teutonic Mythology.

Jacob Grimm in his Deutsches Wörterbuch deplored the " unhochdeutsch " form Elf, borrowed " unthinkingly " from the English, and Tolkien was inspired by Grimm to recommend reviving the genuinely German form in his Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings ( 1967 ) and Elb, Elben was consequently reintroduced in the 1972 German translation of The Lord of the Rings.

On the latter Jacob Grimm does not make a direct association to the elves, but other researchers see a possible connection to the shining light elves of Old Norse.

* Jacob Grimm, Teutonic Mythology ( 1835 ).

Jacob Grimm noted that if, as Adam of Bremen states, Fosite's sacred island was Heligoland, that would make him an ideal candidate for a deity known to both Frisians and Scandinavians, but that it is surprising he is never mentioned by Saxo Grammaticus.

Jacob Grimm theorized that Hel ( whom he refers to here as Halja, the theorized Proto-Germanic form of the term ) is essentially an " image of a greedy, unrestoring, female deity " and that " the higher we are allowed to penetrate into our antiquities, the less hellish and more godlike may Halja appear.

* Grimm, Jacob ( James Steven Stallybrass Trans.

* Grimm, Jacob ( 2004 ).

Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm ( also Karl ; 4 January 1785 – 20 September 1863 ) was a German philologist, jurist and mythologist.

Up to this time Jacob Grimm had been actuated only by a general thirst for knowledge and his energies had not found any aim beyond the practical one of making himself a position in life.

Jacob Grimm lectured on legal antiquities, historical grammar, literary history, and diplomatics, explained Old German poems, and commented on the Germania of Tacitus.

The first work Jacob Grimm published, Über den altdeutschen Meistergesang ( 1811 ), was of a purely literary character.

The closely related subject of the satirical beast epic of the Middle Ages also held great charm for Jacob Grimm, and he published an edition of the Reinhart Fuchs in 1834.

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