Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm

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born

January 04, 1785 in Hanau, Hesse-Kassel, Germany

died

September 20, 1863

gender

male

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http://www.jacobgrimm.com/

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Children's Books, History, Nonfiction

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Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm, German philologist, jurist and mythologist, was born at Hanau, in Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel). He is best known as the discoverer of Grimm's Law, the author of the monumental German Dictionary, his Deutsche Mythologie and more popularly, with his brother Wilhelm, as one of the Brothers Grimm, as the editor of Grimm's Fairy Tales.

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Average rating: 4.18 · 53,594 ratings · 2,270 reviews · 496 distinct works

	The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm, Wilhelm Karl Grimm, Josef Scharl (Illustrator) 4.27 avg rating — 35,320 ratings — published 1812 — 586 editions	My rating:
	Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm, Wilhelm Karl Grimm, Trina Schart Hyman 3.98 avg rating — 4,046 ratings — published 1880 — 109 editions	My rating:
	Rumpelstiltskin by Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm, Wilhelm Karl Grimm, Paul O. Zelinsky 4.07 avg rating — 3,515 ratings — published 1945 — 85 editions	My rating:
	Hansel and Gretel by Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm, Ian Wallace (Author / Illustrator), Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm 3.84 avg rating — 2,313 ratings — published 1967 — 107 editions	My rating:
	The Sleeping Beauty by Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm, Wilhelm Karl Grimm, Trina Schart Hyman 4.25 avg rating — 1,053 ratings — published 1971 — 43 editions	My rating:
	The Elves and the Shoemaker by Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm, Wilhelm Karl Grimm, Jim LaMarche (Illustrator) 4.09 avg rating — 677 ratings — published 1812 — 29 editions	My rating:
	The Complete Fairy Tales of Brothers Grimm, Volume 1 by Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm, Jack Zipes 4.36 avg rating — 464 ratings — published 1819 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Grimm's Grimmest by Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm, Tracy Arah Dockray (Illustrator), Tracy A. Dockray 3.96 avg rating — 512 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Lady and the Lion by Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm, Jacqueline K. Ogburn (Goodreads Author), Laurel Long (Illustrator) 4.41 avg rating — 170 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	Grimms' Fairy Tales and Anderson's Fairy Tales by Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Wilhelm Karl Grimm 4.14 avg rating — 194 ratings — published 1963 — 7 editions	My rating:

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