Personal Info
Known For
Writing
Known Credits
156
Gender
Male
Birthday
1785-01-04
Day of Death
1863-09-20 (78 years old)
Place of Birth
Hanau, Germany
Also Known As
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm
The Brothers Grimm
Jacob Grimm
Biography
German philologist, jurist, and mythologist. 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.