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FREE WHO WERE THE BROTHER GRIMM? PDF Avery Reed | 112 pages | 26 Aug 2015 | Grosset and Dunlap | 9780448483146 | English | New York, United States Who Were the Brothers Grimm? by Avery Reed Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm b. January 4,HanauHesse-Kassel [Germany]—d. September 20,Berlin and Wilhelm Carl Grimm b. February 24,Hanau, Hesse-Kassel [Germany]—d. They were among the most important German scholars of their time. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were the oldest in a family of five brothers and one sister. Their father, Philipp Wilhelm, a lawyer, was town clerk in Hanau and later justiciary in Steinau, another small Hessian town, where his father and grandfather had Who Were the Brother Grimm? ministers of the Calvinistic Reformed Church. Jacob, a scholarly type, was small and slender with sharply cut features, while Wilhelm was taller, had a softer face, and was sociable and fond of all the arts. At Marburg they came under the influence of Clemens Brentanowho awakened in both a love of folk poetry, and Friedrich Karl von Savignycofounder of the historical school of jurisprudence, who taught them a method of antiquarian investigation that formed the real basis of all their later work. Others, too, strongly influenced the Grimms, particularly the philosopher Johann Gottfried von Herderwith his ideas on folk poetry. Essentially, they remained individuals, creating their work according to their own principles. In Jacob accompanied Savigny to Paris to do research on legal manuscripts of the Middle Ages; the following year he became secretary to the war office in Kassel. Because of his health, Wilhelm remained without regular employment until As secretary to the legation, he went twice to Paris —15to recover precious books and paintings taken by the French from Hesse and Prussia. He also took part in the Congress of Vienna September —June By that time the brothers had definitely given up thoughts of a legal career in favour of purely literary research. In the years to follow they lived frugally and worked steadily, laying the foundations for their lifelong interests. Their whole thinking was Who Were the Brother Grimm? in the social and political changes of their time and the challenge these changes held. Their state of mind made them more Realists than Romantics. They investigated the distant past and saw in antiquity the foundation of all social institutions of their days. But their efforts to preserve these foundations did not mean that they wanted to return to the past. From the beginning, the Grimms sought to include material from beyond their own frontiers—from the literary traditions of Scandinavia, Spain, the Netherlands, Ireland, Scotland, England, Serbia, and Finland. They first collected folk songs and tales for their Who Were the Brother Grimm? Achim von Arnim and Brentano, who had collaborated on an influential collection of folk lyrics inand the brothers examined in some critical essays the essential difference between folk literature and other writing. To them, folk poetry was the only true poetry, expressing the eternal joys and sorrows, the hopes and fears of humankind. Most of the stories were taken from oral sources, though a few were from printed sources. The great merit of Wilhelm Grimm is that he gave the fairy tales a readable form without changing their folkloric character. At the same time, the Grimms gave their attention to the written documents of early literature, bringing out new editions of ancient texts, from both the Germanic and other languages. While collaborating on these subjects for two decades —26Jacob also turned to the study of philology with an extensive work on grammar Who Were the Brother Grimm?, the Deutsche Grammatik — He represented the natural laws of sound change both vowels and consonants in various languages and thus created bases for a method of scientific etymology ; i. The work stimulated other publications in France, the Netherlands, Who Were the Brother Grimm?, and the southern Slavic countries. Who Were the Brother Grimm? Contents. Print print Print. Table Of Contents. Facebook Twitter. Give Feedback External Websites. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article requires login. External Websites. Famous Authors - Biography of Brothers Grimm. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. See Article History. Get exclusive access to content from our First Edition with your subscription. Subscribe today. Load Next Page. Brothers Grimm | Biography & Works | Britannica The first edition contained 86 stories, and by the seventh edition inhad unique fairy tales. Philipp was a highly regarded district magistrate in Steinau, near Kassel. Jacob and Wilhelm were sent to school for a classical education once they were of age, while their father was working. They were very hard-working pupils throughout their education. However, intheir father died at the age of 44 Who Were the Brother Grimm? pneumonia. This was a tragic time for the Grimms because the family lost all financial support and relied on their aunt, Henriette Who Were the Brother Grimm?, and grandfather, Johanne Hermann Who Were the Brother Grimm?. At the age of 11, Jacob was compelled to be head of the household and provide for his family. After downsizing their home because of financial reasons, Henriette sent Jacob and Wilhelm to study at the prestigious high school, Lyzeum, in Kassel. In school, their grandfather wrote to them saying that because of their current situation, they needed to Who Were the Brother Grimm? themselves industriously to secure their future welfare. Shortly after attending Lyzeum, their grandfather died and they were again left to themselves to support their family in the future. The two became intent on becoming the best students at Lyzeum, since they wanted to live up to their deceased father. They studied more than twelve hours a day and established similar work habits. They also shared the same bed and room at school. After four years of rigorous schooling, Jacob graduated head of his class in Wilhelm contracted asthma and scarlet fever, which delayed his graduation by one year although he was also head of his class. Both were given special dispensations for studying law at the University of Marburg. They particularly needed this dispensation because their social standing at the time was not high enough to have normal admittance. University of Marburg was a small, person university where most students were more interested in activities other than schooling. Most Who Were the Brother Grimm? the students received stipends even though they were the richest in the state. The Grimms did not Who Were the Brother Grimm? any stipends because of their social standing; however, they were not upset by it since it kept the distractions away. Jacob attended the university first and showed proof of his hard work ethic and quick intelligence. Wilhelm joined Jacob at the university, and Jacob drew the attention of Professor Friedrich Carl von Savignyfounder of its historical school of law. He became a huge personal and professional influence on the brothers. Throughout their time at university, the brothers became quite close with Savigny and were able to use his personal library as they became very interested in German law, history, and folklore. Savigny asked Jacob to join him in Paris as an assistant, and Jacob went with him for a year. While he was gone, Wilhelm became very interested in German literature and started collecting books. Once Jacob returned to Kassel in Who Were the Brother Grimm?, he adopted his brother's passion and changed his focus from law to German literature. While Jacob studied literature and took care of their siblings, Wilhelm continued on to receive his degree in law at Marburg. Intheir mother died, and it was hard on Jacob because he took the position in the family as a father figure, while also trying to be a brother. From tothe Grimm family had barely enough money to properly feed and clothe themselves. During this time, Jacob and Wilhelm Who Were the Brother Grimm? concerned about the stability of the family. Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano were good friends of the brothers and wanted to publish folk tales, so they asked the brothers to collect oral tales for publication. The Grimms collected many old books and asked friends and acquaintances in Kassel to tell tales and to gather stories from others. Jacob and Wilhelm sought to collect these stories in order to write a history of old German Poesie and to preserve history. The first volume of the first edition was published incontaining 86 stories; the second volume of 70 stories followed in For the second edition, two volumes containing the KHM texts were issued in and the Appendix was removed and published separately in the third volume intotaling tales. The third edition appeared in ; fourth edition, ; fifth edition, ; sixth edition, ; seventh edition, Stories were added, and also subtracted, from one edition to the next, until the seventh held tales. Some later editions were extensively illustrated, first by Philipp Grot Johann and, after his death inby German illustrator Robert Leinweber. The first volumes were much criticized because, although they were called "Children's Tales", they were not regarded as suitable for children, both for the scholarly information included and the subject matter. They removed sexual references—such as Rapunzel 's innocently asking why her dress was getting tight around her belly, and thus naively revealing to the witch Dame Gothel her pregnancy and the prince's visits—but, in many respects, violence, particularly when punishing villains, was increased. After publishing the first KHM inthey published Who Were the Brother Grimm? second, augmented and re-edited, volume in Inthe Who Were the Brother Grimm? published their Kleine Ausgabe or "small edition", a selection of 50 tales designed for child readers.

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