Jacob Grimm

1785 – 1863 · died at about 78^[1][2]

Literature

Fun Facts About Jacob Grimm

• Jacob Grimm was fired as a professor and banished from the Kingdom of Hanover in 1837 for protesting, as one of the Göttingen Seven, the king's scrapping of the constitution.^[1]
• Grimm once ran the private library of Jérôme Bonaparte, King of Westphalia, a job with nominal duties and a salary of 4000 francs.^[1]
• The Grimm brothers expected their German dictionary to take 10 years; later scholars finally finished it in 1961, at 33 volumes.^[1]
• Grimm's law, the sound shift named after Jacob Grimm, was first observed by the Danish philologist Rasmus Christian Rask.^[1]
• When Grimm took a job in the war office, he complained about trading his stylish Paris suit for a stiff uniform and pigtail.^[1]
• Grimm was elected to the Frankfurt National Parliament during the German revolution of 1848, but soon asked to be released to return to his studies.^[1]
• Jacob Grimm was alive at the same time as Theodore Roosevelt — their lives overlapped for 5 years (1858–1863).^[1][2][3][4]
• Jacob Grimm shares a birthday with Isaac Newton: both were born on January 4.^[1][2][5][6]

Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm, also known as Ludwig Karl, was a German author, linguist, philologist, jurist, and folklorist. He formulated Grimm's law of linguistics, and was the co-author of the Deutsches Wörterbuch, the author of Deutsche Mythologie, and the editor of Grimms' Fairy Tales. He was the older brother of Wilhelm Grimm; together, they were the literary duo known as the Brothers Grimm.^[1]

Contemporaries

Michael Faraday

72 yr overlap

Charles Babbage

72 yr overlap

Arthur Schopenhauer

72 yr overlap

Carl Friedrich Gauss

70 yr overlap

Hokusai

64 yr overlap

John Quincy Adams

63 yr overlap

Victor Hugo

61 yr overlap

Alexandre Dumas

61 yr overlap

Ralph Waldo Emerson

60 yr overlap

Andrew Jackson

60 yr overlap

George Sand

59 yr overlap

Heinrich Heine

59 yr overlap

Their World

Questions About Jacob Grimm

When was Jacob Grimm born?

Jacob Grimm was born on January 4, 1785, and died on September 20, 1863.

How old was Jacob Grimm at death?

Jacob Grimm was born on January 4, 1785, and died on September 20, 1863, at age 78.

What was Jacob Grimm known for?

Jacob Grimm was known for: Grimm's Fairy Tales. Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm, also known as Ludwig Karl, was a German author, linguist, philologist, jurist, and folklorist. He formulated Grimm's law of linguistics, and was the co-author of the Deutsches Wörterbuch, the author of Deutsche Mythologie, and the editor of Grimms' Fairy Tales. He was the older brother of Wilhelm Grimm; together, they were the literary duo known as the Brothers Grimm.

Who was alive at the same time as Jacob Grimm?

Jacob Grimm's closest contemporary was Michael Faraday. Their lives overlapped for 72 years.