Wilhelm Grimm
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Wilhelm Carl Grimm was a German writer, philologist and anthropologist. He was the younger brother of Jacob Grimm, of the literary duo the Brothers Grimm.
Grimm in 1847
The Grimms' tomb in Berlin
Brothers Grimm
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The Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, were German academics, linguists, cultural researchers, and authors whose work in folklore, linguistics, and literary scholarship shaped the development of moder
Wilhelm Grimm
…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. Wilhelm was born in February 1786 in Hanau, in Hesse-Kassel. In 1803, he started studying law at the University of Marburg, one year after his brother…
Wilhelm Grimm (left) and Jacob Grimm, depicted by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann (1855).
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm lived in this house in Steinau from 1791 to 1796.
Jacob Grimm lecturing (illustration by Ludwig Emil Grimm, c. 1830)
Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm, c. 1837