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Jacob Grimm
1785–1863
Jacob Grimm (1785–1863) was born at Hanau, studied law at Marburg, and spent his life as a librarian, professor and scholar. With his brother Wilhelm he published the Kinder- und Hausmärchen from 1812 and began the Deutsches Wörterbuch. His Deutsche Grammatik set out the regular consonant shift now called Grimm’s Law, and he is counted a founder of Germanic philology. Dismissed from Göttingen in 1837 as one of the protesting “Göttingen Seven”, he ended his career in Berlin.
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