
Jacob Grimm
WritingJanuary 4, 1785-September 20, 1863
Birth Place
Hanau, Germany
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.