Personal Info
Known For
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
January 4, 1785(78)
Day of Death
September 20, 1863
Place of Birth
Hanau, Germany
Also Known As
Jacob Ludwig Carl GrimmThe Brothers Grimm
Jacob Grimm
Writing
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.