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The Grimm Brothers. By: Hayley and Haley March 25, 2009 Today I read some really cool fairy tales that were written by the Grimm brothers. I was really interested in these writers, so I decided to learn some more information about them. I went online and learned about their family. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm had seven brothers and sisters, but only six of them lived through infancy. Jacob was born on January 4, 1785 in Hanau, Germany. Wilhelm was born on February 24, 1786. The two brothers had grown up and worked with each other  cooperatively. Wilhelm died on December 16, 1859, at the age of 73. Jacob died on September 20, 1863, at the age of 78. March 26, 2009 I did more research on the Grimm brothers. Today I learned about many of the stories they wrote. The stories that the brothers Grimm wrote were not from their own fantasy. In fact, they collected quite a bit of their stories from young, literate, middle class women. The brothers published their first book in 1812 entitled __"Kinder-und Hausmärchen"__. In English that translates to <span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 128);">__Children's and Household Tales__. It <span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 128);">contained 86 fairy tales. Then in <span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 128);">1814 they <span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 128);">published a <span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 128);">second volume of the book with the same name. This book had <span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 128);">90 stories in it.

March 27, 2009 I also found out today that they wrote a another book also called <span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 128);">__Children's and Household Tales,__ that became published in 1814, but later became known as the Book of Grimm's Fairy Tales. Not many people know that there even is a book called __Children's and Household Tales__, even though they own a copy of Grimm's Fairy Tales.

March 30, 2009 I was sick for the past couple of days so I got a lot of time to research on the web. I found out that the brothers had written stories like <span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 128);">Rumpelstiltskin, __Snow White and Red Rose, The Glass Coffin__, and __The Crystal Ball__. They have <span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 128);">written 210 stories all together. These <span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 128);">stories were very popular and still are. 200 of the 210 stories are stories but <span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 128);">10 of them <span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 128);">are so-called child legends. March 31, 2009 Today was my last day of research and I learned that <span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 128);">Disney had taken some of the Grimm fairy tales and changed them into different stories and movies. Disney had taken __Snow White and Red Rose__ and <span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 128);">turned it into __Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs__. They also <span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 128);">took __Cinderella__ and <span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 128);">turned it into a short feature and then a full length feature. <span style="color: rgb(247, 110, 8);"> April 1, 2009 Today I went online again to see where a good place the Grimm Brothers' books are and it turns out <span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 128);">most of their books are in Hanau, Germany, where they grew up. And because today is my birthday, my friends and family saw how interested I am in the Grimm Brothers and their history, they gave me plane tickets to Hanau, Germany so I can find out more cool facts about them! I'm so excited but the sad part is that I won't be able to talk to you (my Journal) for a few days.

April 5, 2009 Well, here I am, in Germany. It's so beautiful here and I already read/bought 5 Grimm books! I went and saw the monument of the Grimm Brothers and got a picture of it. It made me want to read another book. I read <span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 128);">Rumpelstiltskin and did some research and found that <span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 128);"><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 128);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 128);">it was made about a girl one of the grimm brothers met. I am going home now because I think I learned everything that there is to know about them.

<span style="color: rgb(233, 116, 7);"> <span style="color: rgb(247, 110, 8);"> <span style="color: rgb(247, 110, 8); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <span style="color: rgb(247, 110, 8);"> http://www.familymanagement.com/literacy/grimms/grimms-toc.html<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(247, 110, 8);"> This has 210 titles of stories written by the Grimm Brothers. http://www.grimmstories.com/ <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> http://www.ask.com/bar?q=grimm+brothers+info&page=10&qsrc=0&ab=5&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kuleuven.be%2Ficcp%2F2004%2Ficcp09%2Fhistory.htm <span style="color: rgb(247, 110, 8);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(247, 110, 8);">Around 1806 Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) started to collect fairy-tales with his brother Wilhelm (1786-1859).
 * <span style="color: rgb(247, 110, 8);">Worldwide approximately 26 millions copies have appeared in more than 160 different languages.
 * <span style="color: rgb(247, 110, 8);">The brothers Grimm have not written the stories from own fantasy.
 * <span style="color: rgb(247, 110, 8);">The first part of the "Kinder- und Hausmärchen" contained 86 fairy-tales and was published on December 24th in 1812.
 * <span style="color: rgb(247, 110, 8);">The Second part - with 70 stories - appeared two years later in 1814.
 * <span style="color: rgb(247, 110, 8);">a collection of all 200 stories plus the so-called 10 child legends.
 * <span style="color: rgb(247, 110, 8);">The fairy-tales of Grimm are and remain unprecedentedly popular.
 * <span style="color: rgb(247, 110, 8);">Of the first edition from 1812 only 900 copies were pressed and it lasted more than three years before they were sold.
 * <span style="color: rgb(247, 110, 8);">In the 19th century, Jacob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859), two German brothers, began to collect folk and fairy tales with the goal of saving the endangered oral tradition of Germany.
 * <span style="color: rgb(247, 110, 8);">Many of their sources were young, literate, middle class women.
 * <span style="color: rgb(247, 110, 8);"><span style="color: rgb(247, 110, 8);"> In 1812 they published their first book of fairy tales //Children's and Household Tales//.
 * <span style="color: rgb(247, 110, 8);">The table of contents reads like an A-list of fairy tale celebrities: //Cinderella//, //Hansel and Gretel//, //Little Red Riding Hood//, //Sleeping Beauty//, //Snow White//, //Rapunzel//, //Rumpelstiltskin//, and //The Frog Prince//.
 * <span style="color: rgb(247, 110, 8);">In the next volume of //Grimm's Fairy Tales//, the brothers added 70 more stories.
 * <span style="color: rgb(247, 110, 8);">It went on growing like this for six more editions. Finally, the book contained over 200 stories.
 * <span style="color: rgb(247, 110, 8);">The 210 stories in the Grimms' collection also represent an anthology of fairy tales, animal fables, rustic farces and religious allegories that remains unrivalled to this day.

http://www.notablebiographies.com/Gi-He/Grimm-Brothers.html

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 * <span style="color: rgb(247, 110, 8);">Jakob Karl Grimm was born on January 4, 1785, in Hanau, Germany.
 * <span style="color: rgb(247, 110, 8);">His brother, Wilhelm Karl Grimm, was born on February 24 of the following year.
 * <span style="color: rgb(247, 110, 8);">As small children they spent most of their time together; aside from a brief period of living apart, they were to remain together for the rest of their lives.
 * <span style="color: rgb(247, 110, 8);">Their even-tempered personalities made it easy for them to work together on projects.

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[|http://www.bayswaterps.vic.edu.au/lote/maerchen/grimm.ht] Do you know the story of the Grimm Brothers? They were two brothers called Jakob and Wilhelm who lived in Germany in the first half of the 19th century. They were born in Hanau. They worked together for their entire lives. They were fascinated by poetry and old legends and traveled throughout Germany to collect all the tales that were traditionally told round the hearths of village cottages. Their first book of tales, the "Kinder und Hausmärchen", was a great success in Germany and abroad. In Germany it was the most reprinted book after Luther's bible. Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm were also great scholars, researching the origin and development of the German language. They lived and worked in Kassel for many years and they were both made professors at Berlin University.

[|http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimmtales.html] I thought this was a good website that has all the tales that the Grimm Brothers wrote and it has over 200!!

[|http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm.html] I added this because It has most of their life.
 * 1791.** The Grimm family moves to Steinau.
 * 1796**. Philipp Wilhelm Grimm, father of eight Grimm brothers and one Grimm sister, dies January 10, 1796, at the age of 44. Three of his nine children have preceded him in death. His oldest surviving child, Jacob, is 11 years old.
 * 1798**. Jacob and Wilhelm move to Kassel, their mother's home city, to enter secondary school. The 13 and 14 year old boys will live with an aunt.
 * 1802**. Jacob begins his study of law at the University of Marburg.
 * 1803**. Wilhelm begins his study of law at the University of Marburg.
 * 1806**. Jacob and Wilhelm, influenced by the folk poetry collection of Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim, //Des Knaben Wunderhorn//, begin to collect folktales (//Märchen//).
 * 1808**. Dorothea Grimm, mother of eight Grimm brothers and one Grimm sister, dies May 27, 1808, at the age of 52. In order to support his younger brothers and sister, Jacob takes a position as a librarian at Kassel. Wilhelm will follow soon.
 * 1812**. The Grimm brothers publish volume one of //Kinder- und Hausmärchen// (//Children' and Household Tales//), an unpretentious book containing 86 numbered folktales.
 * 1814**. Volume two of //Kinder- und Hausmärchen// appears in print, pre-dated 1815, adding 70 stories to the previous collection. This famous work will see six additional editions during the Grimms' lifetime. In its final version it will contain 200 numbered stories plus 10 "Children's Legends." It is destined to become the best known and most influential book ever created in the German language.
 * 1816, 1818**. The Grimms publish two volumes of //Deutsche Sagen//, a collection totalling 585 German legends.
 * 1819**. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm receive honorary doctorates from the University of Marburg. Their scholarly work on linguistics, folklore, and medieval studies continues, resulting in many publications.
 * 1825**. Wilhelm Grimm marries Henriette Dorothea (Dortchen) Wild, who -- together with other members of her family -- had provided the Jacob and Wilhelm with many of their best folktale texts.
 * 1829-1830**. The Grimms resign their positions as librarians in Kassel and accept positions at the University of Göttingen as librarians and professors.
 * 1837-1841**. Professors Grimm join five of their university colleagues in a formal protest against a constitutional violation of Ernst August, King of Hannover. The seven professors (Die Göttinger Sieben) are fired. The Grimm brothers receive many offers for new positions, and finally accept appointments at the University of Berlin.
 * 1842-1852**. The Grimms continue their scholarly work and political activities, but finally give up their formal appointments at the University of Berlin (Jacob in 1848, Wilhelm in 1852) in order to dedicate themselves to their own studies and research.
 * 1859**. Wilhelm Grimm dies December 16, 1859, at the age of 73.
 * 1863**. Jacob Grimm dies September 20, 1863, at the age of 78.

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Biography
[|Jakob Ludwig Grimm] and [|Wilhelm Karl Grimm] were born on January 4, 1785, and February 24, 1786, respectively, in [|Hanau] near Frankfurt in [|Hessen]. They were among a family of nine children, only six of whom survived infancy.[|[][|2][|]] Their early childhood was spent in the countryside in what has been described as an "idyllic" state. The Grimm family lived near the magistrates' house between 1790 and 1796 while the father was employed by the Prince of Hessen. When the eldest brother Jakob was eleven years old their father, Philip Wilhelm, died and the family moved into a cramped urban residence.[|[][|2][|]] Two years later, the children's grandfather also died, leaving them and their mother to struggle in reduced circumstances. It has been argued [//[|citation needed]//] that this is the reason behind the Brothers tendency to idealize and excuse fathers, leaving a predominance of female villains in the tales—the infamous [|wicked stepmothers], for example, the evil stepmother and stepsisters in “Cinderella”[|[][|3][|]] However this opinion ignores the fact that the brothers were //collectors// of folk tales, not their authors: "They urged fidelity to the spoken text, without embellishments, and though it has been shown that they did not always practise what they preached, the idealized ‘orality’ of their style was much closer to reality than the literary retellings previously thought necessary."[|[][|4][|]]"Scholars and psychiatrists have thrown a camouflaging net over the stories with their relentless, albeit hey fascinating, question of 'What does it mean?'"[|[][|5][|]] Another influence is perhaps shown in the brothers' fondness for stories such as //[|The Twelve Brothers]//, which show //one// girl and //several// brothers (their own family structure) overcoming opposition.[|[][|6][|]] The two brothers were educated at the Friedrichs-[|Gymnasium] in [|Kassel] and later both read law at the [|University of Marburg]. It was the inspiration of [|Friedrich von Savigny] there, who awakened in them an interest in the past. They were in their early twenties when they began the linguistic and [|philological] studies that would culminate in both [|Grimm's Law] and their collected editions of fairy and folk tales. Though their collections of tales became immensely popular, they were essentially a by-product of the linguistic research which was the Brothers' primary goal. In 1808, Jakob was named [|court librarian] to the [|King of Westphalia], and in 1812 the Grimm brothers published their first volume of fairy tales, //Tales of Children and the Home//. They had received their stories from peasants and villagers, and controversially from other sources such as already published works from other cultures and languages (eg. [|Charles Perrault]). In their collaboration, Jakob did more of the research, while Wilhelm, more fragile, put it into literary form and provided the childlike style. They were also interested in folklore and primitive literature. In 1816 Jakob became librarian in Kassel, where Wilhelm was also employed. Between 1816 and 1818 they published two volumes of German legends and also a volume of early literary history. In time the brothers became interested in older languages and their relation to German. Jakob began to specialize in the history and structure of the German language. The relationships between words became known as Grimm's Law. They gathered immense amounts of data. In 1830, they formed a household in [|Göttingen] with Jakob, where both brothers secured positions at the [|University of Göttingen]. [|[][|7][|]] Jakob was named professor and head librarian in 1830, Wilhelm became a professor in 1835. In 1837, the Brothers Grimm joined five of their colleague professors at the [|University of Göttingen] to protest against the abolition of the liberal [|constitution] of the state of [|Hanover] by King [|Ernest Augustus I], a reactionary son of [|King George III]. This group came to be known in the [|German] states as //Die Göttinger Sieben// (//The [|Göttingen Seven]//). The two, along with the five others, protested against the abrogation. For this, the professors were fired from their university posts and three deported--including Jakob. Jakob settled in Kassel, outside Ernest's realm, and Wilhelm joined him there, both staying with their brother Ludwig. However, the next year, the two were invited to Berlin by the King of Prussia, and both settled there.[|[][|8][|]] Their last years were spent in writing a definitive [|dictionary of the German language], the first volume being published in 1854; it was carried on by future generations. Jakob remained a bachelor until his death, but Wilhelm married Henriette Dorothea Wild(Also known as Dortchen), a pharmacist's daughter and a childhood friend from whom the brothers heard the story [|Little Red Riding Hood], in 1825. They had four children, of whom three survived infancy. Even after Wilhelm's marriage, the brothers stayed incredibly close. =The Brothers Grimm Biography=

[|Fabulists]
The German brothers Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm spent years collecting and researching folk tales early in the 19th century. They published //Children's and Household Tales// in 1812, a collection which became known as "Grimm's Fairy Tales." The collection included what are now some of the world's most famous stories, including //Cinderella//, //Hansel and Gretel//, //Rapunzel// and //Rumpelstiltskin//. Wilhelm married in 1825, but Jacob never wed and for most of his life lived in his brother's home. The brothers also began a German historical dictionary, the enormous //Deutsches Worterbook//, which ran to 16 volumes when it was finally completed by others in 1954.
 * Extra credit**: //The Brothers Grimm//, a fictional thriller based (very) loosely on the brothers, was released in 2005. The film starred [|Matt Damon] as Wilhelm and [|Heath Ledger] as Jacob... The Grimm fairy tale //Snow-White and Rose-Red// was made into the animated film //Snow White and the Seven Dwarves// by [|Walt Disney]. Disney also adapted //Cinderella// as an animated short in 1922 and a full feature in 1950.

These are all of the stories that they wrote

[|http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/grimmtmp/]
 * [|The Frog King, or Iron Henry]
 * [|Our Lady's Child]
 * [|The Story of a Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was]
 * [|The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids]
 * [|Faithful John]
 * [|The Good Bargain]
 * [|The Twelve Brothers]
 * [|Brother and Sister]
 * [|Rapunzel]
 * [|The Three Little Men in the Wood]
 * [|The Three Spinners]
 * [|Hansel and Grethel] (called Gretel in this version)
 * [|The Three Snake-Leaves]
 * [|The White Snake]
 * [|The Valiant Little Tailor]
 * [|Cinderella]
 * [|The Riddle]
 * [|Mother Holle]
 * [|The Seven Ravens]
 * [|Little Red-Cap]
 * [|The Singing Bone]
 * [|The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs]
 * [|The Girl Without Hands]
 * [|Clever Hans]
 * [|The Three Languages]
 * [|Clever Elsie]
 * [|The Wishing-Table, The Gold-Ass, and The Cudgel in the Sack]
 * [|Thumbling]
 * [|The Elves (two stories)]
 * [|The Robber Bridegroom]
 * [|The Godfather]
 * [|Frau Trude]
 * [|Godfather Death]
 * [|Thumbling as Journeyman]
 * [|Fitcher's Bird]
 * [|The Juniper-Tree]
 * [|Old Sultan]
 * [|The Six Swans]
 * [|Little Briar-Rose]
 * [|Fundevogel]
 * [|King Thrushbeard]
 * [|Little Snow-White]
 * [|The Knapsack, The Hat, and The Horn]
 * [|Rumpelstiltskin]
 * [|Sweetheart Roland]
 * [|The Golden Bird]
 * [|The Two Brothers]
 * [|The Queen Bee]
 * [|The Three Feathers]
 * [|The Golden Goose]
 * [|Allerleirauh]
 * [|The Hare's Bride]
 * [|The Twelve Huntsmen]
 * [|The Thief and His Master]
 * [|The Three Sons of Fortune]
 * [|How Six Men Got On in the World]
 * [|Gossip Wolf and the Fox]
 * [|The Pink]
 * [|The Old Man and His Grandson]
 * [|The Water-Nix]
 * [|Brother Lustig]
 * [|Hans in Luck]
 * [|Hans Married]
 * [|The Gold-Children]
 * [|The Singing, Soaring Lark]
 * [|The Goose-Girl]
 * [|The Young Giant]
 * [|The Elves] (another story with that title)
 * [|The King of the Golden Mountain]
 * [|The Raven]
 * [|The Peasant's Wise Daughter]
 * [|The Three Little Birds]
 * [|The Water of Life]
 * [|The Spirit in the Bottle]
 * [|The Devil's Sooty Brother]
 * [|Bearskin]
 * [|The Willow-Wren and the Bear]
 * [|Sweet Porridge]
 * [|Wise Folks]
 * [|Stories About Snakes] (called paddocks in this version)
 * [|The Poor Miller's Boy and the Cat]
 * [|The Two Travellers]
 * [|Hans the Hedgehog]
 * [|The Shroud]
 * [|The Skilful Huntsman]
 * [|The Two Kings' Children]
 * [|The Cunning Little Tailor]
 * [|The Bright Sun Brings It to Light]
 * [|The Blue Light]
 * [|The Wilful Child]
 * [|The King's Son Who Feared Nothing]
 * [|Donkey Cabbages]
 * [|The Old Woman in the Wood]
 * [|The Three Brothers]
 * [|The Devil and His Grandmother]
 * [|Ferdinand the Faithful]
 * [|The Iron Stove]
 * [|The Four Skilful Brothers]
 * [|One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three-Eyes]
 * [|Fair Katrinelje and Pif-Paf-Poltrie]
 * [|The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces]
 * [|The Six Servants]
 * [|The White Bride and the Black One]
 * [|Iron John]
 * [|The Three Black Princesses]
 * [|Knoist and His Three Sons]
 * [|The Maid of Brakel]
 * [|Domestic Servants]
 * [|The Lambkin and the Little Fish]
 * [|Simeli Mountain]
 * [|Going A-Travelling]
 * [|The Donkey]
 * [|The Ungrateful Son]
 * [|The Turnip]
 * [|The Old Man Made Young Again]
 * [|The Three Sluggards]
 * [|The Shepherd Boy]
 * [|The Star-Money]
 * [|The Stolen Farthings]
 * [|Brides On Their Trial]
 * [|The Sparrow and His Four Children]
 * [|Snow-White and Rose-Red]
 * [|The Glass Coffin]
 * [|Lazy Harry]
 * [|The Griffin]
 * [|Strong Hans]
 * [|The Hut in the Forest]
 * [|The Goose-Girl at the Well]
 * [|Eve's Various Children]
 * [|The Nix of the Mill-Pond]
 * [|The Poor Boy in the Grave]
 * [|The True Sweetheart]
 * [|The Spindle, The Shuttle, and The Needle]
 * [|The Sea-Hare]
 * [|The Master-Thief]
 * [|The Drummer]
 * [|The Ear of Corn]
 * [|Old Rinkrank]
 * [|The Crystal Ball]
 * [|Maid Maleen]
 * [|St. Joseph in the Forest]
 * [|The Twelve Apostles]
 * [|The Rose]
 * [|Poverty and Humility Lead to Heaven]
 * [|God's Food]
 * [|The Three Green Twigs]
 * [|The Aged Mother]
 * [|The Hazel-Branch]
 * [|Cat and Mouse in Partnership]
 * [|The Wonderful Musician]
 * [|The Pack of Ragamuffins]
 * [|The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean]
 * [|The Fisherman and His Wife]
 * [|The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage]
 * [|The Bremen Town-Musicians]
 * [|The Louse and the Flea]
 * [|The Tailor in Heaven]
 * [|The Wedding of Mrs. Fox (two stories)]
 * [|The Elves] (one more story)
 * [|Herr Korbes]
 * [|The Dog and the Sparrow]
 * [|Frederick and Catherine]
 * [|The Little Peasant]
 * [|Jorinda and Joringel]
 * [|The Wolf and the Man]
 * [|The Wolf and the Fox]
 * [|The Fox and the Cat]
 * [|Clever Grethel] (called Gretel in this version)
 * [|The Death of the Little Hen]
 * [|Gambling Hansel]
 * [|The Fox and the Geese]
 * [|The Poor Man and the Rich Man]
 * [|Old Hildebrand]
 * [|Doctor Knowall]
 * [|The Jew Among Thorns]
 * [|The Flail from Heaven]
 * [|The Three Army-Surgeons]
 * [|The Seven Swabians]
 * [|The Three Apprentices]
 * [|The Lazy Spinner]
 * [|The Fox and the Horse]
 * [|The Lord's Animals and the Devil's]
 * [|The Beam]
 * [|The Old Beggar-Woman]
 * [|Odds and Ends] (called hurds in this version)
 * [|The Story of Schlauraffen Land]
 * [|The Ditmarsch Tale of Wonders]
 * [|A Riddling Tale]
 * [|The Wise Servant]
 * [|The Peasant in Heaven]
 * [|Lean Lisa]
 * [|Sharing Joy and Sorrow]
 * [|The Willow-Wren]
 * [|The Sole]
 * [|The Bittern and the Hoopoe]
 * [|The Owl]
 * [|The Moon]
 * [|The Duration of Life]
 * [|Death's Messengers]
 * [|Master Pfriem]
 * [|The Little Folks' Presents]
 * [|The Giant and the Tailor]
 * [|The Nail]
 * [|The Hare and the Hedgehog]
 * [|The Peasant and the Devil]
 * [|The Crumbs on the Table]
 * [|The Grave-Mound]
 * [|The Boots of Buffalo-Leather]
 * [|The Golden Key]

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This is a picture of the Grimm Brothers

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The Brothers Grimm, Jacob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm (1786-1859), were born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, in the German state of Hesse. Throughout their lives they remained close friends, and both studied law at Marburg University. Jacob was a pioneer in the study of German philology, and although Wilhelm's work was hampered by poor health the brothers collaborated in the creation of a German dictionary, not completed until a century after their deaths. But they were best (and universally) known for the collection of over two hundred folk tales they made from oral sources and published in two volumes of //Nursery and Household Tales// in 1812 and 1814. Although their intention was to preserve such material as part of German cultural and literary history, and their collection was first published with scholarly notes and no illustration, the tales soon came into the possession of young readers. This was in part due to Edgar Taylor, who made the first English translation in 1823, selecting about fifty stories "with the amusement of some young friends principally in view." They have been an essential ingredient of children's reading ever since.