Biography

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Born in Hanau, Germany, The Brothers Grimm, were vastly known for their folklorist and linguistic contribution to German culture, and best known for Kinder- und Hausmärchen also called Grimm’s Fairy Tales. Lawyer and father to his five children, Philipp Wilhelm Grimm passed on 1796, left despair and sadness to everyone in the family. The Grimm Brothers were able to finish their education thanks to their aunt. From a small age, the Grimm brothers always showed potential. Continuing their education at Marburg University, they had intention to follow their father’s footsteps. However, their natural inclinations led them somewhere else. The study of German and foreign literature. However, their natural inclinations led them somewhere else. The study of German and foreign literature. In 1825, Wilhelm married, but the brothers had agreed to work together and to not be separated again. In 1829, the Kaseel Library offered a vacancy for the post of curator (where they had been working since 1814) . This position should have been granted to Jacob Green, but another person, a person without any merit, got it instead.

The Grimm brothers were very angry at this injustice. Of course, they are not without jobs—their scientific works were already too famous. In 1830, Jacob Green was invited to Göttingen to become a professor of German literature and a senior librarian at the University of Göttingen. William obtained the post of junior librarian in 1831, and later, he became a full-time professor in 1835. There, the brothers worked with a group of progressive scholars. But their stay in Göttingen was short lived. The petition supports the opening of the Brotherhood of Grimm, and two of Germany's most famous publishers, Reymer and Girtsel, propose to publish a German dictionary based on extensive science. The Grimm brothers accepted this suggestion without hesitation, and after a long period of preparation, they started to work. But they didn't have to stay in Kassel for too long—their friends helped them. Their new patron was Prince Frederick William of Prussia. They were elected to the Berlin Academy of Sciences and were granted the right to read lectures at the University of Berlin as scholars. Soon after, William and Jacob Green began to read lectures at the university and lived in Berlin until the day they died. William died on December 16, 1859, and Jacob passed on September 20, 1863.