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The Brothers Grimm (die Brüder Grimm or die Gebrüder Grimm), Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm (1786–1859), were German academics who together collected and published folklore.
May 29, 2024 · The Brothers Grimm were two German folklorists and linguists who are today best known for their Kinder- und Hausmärchen (1812–22). This collection of stories, called Grimm’s Fairy Tales in the English-speaking world, led to the modern study of folklore. They were among the most important German scholars of their time.
A certain father had two sons, the elder of whom was smart and sensible, and could do everything, but the younger was stupid and could neither learn nor understand anything, and when people saw him they said, There's a fellow who will give his father some trouble!
In the 19th century, two German brothers named Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm collected the oral folklore of their country and published it in two volumes. The fairy tales contained within these books became pillars of popular culture.
Grimms' Fairy Tales, originally known as the Children's and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen, pronounced [ˌkɪndɐ ʔʊnt ˈhaʊsmɛːɐ̯çən], commonly abbreviated as KHM), is a German collection of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, first published on 20 December 1812.
May 20, 2024 · Grimm’s Fairy Tales is a classic and influential collection of folklore by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, first published in two volumes as Kinder -und Hausmarchen (1812–15; ‘Children’s and Household Tales’) and later revised and enlarged seven times between 1819 and 1857.
Sep 24, 2019 · The brothers Grimm published what would become one of the most influential and famous collections of folklore in the world. Children’s and Household Tales (Kinder und Hausmärchen), later titled...
