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Jacob Grimm

Born

in Hanau, Hesse-Kassel, Germany

January 04, 1785

Died

September 20, 1863

Genre

Folk Tales, Fairy Tales, Nonfiction

Influences

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German philologist and folklorist Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm in 1822 formulated Grimm's Law, the basis for much of modern comparative linguistics. With his brother Wilhelm Karl Grimm (1786-1859), he collected Germanic folk tales and published them as Grimm's Fairy Tales (1812-1815).

Indo-European stop consonants, represented in Germanic, underwent the regular changes that Grimm's Law describes; this law essentially states that Indo-European p shifted to Germanic f, t shifted to th, and k shifted to h. Indo-European b shifted to Germanic p, d shifted to t, and g shifted to k. Indo-European bh shifted to Germanic b, dh shifted to d, and gh shifted to g.

This jurist and mythologist also authored the monumental German Dictionary and his ...more

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Jacob Grimm’s books

Average rating: 4.13 · 336,766 ratings · 15,463 reviews · 4,926 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Padraic Colum (Introduction) 4.28 avg rating — 153,478 ratings — published 1812 — 769 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grimm's Fairy Tales 4.13 avg rating — 27,031 ratings — published 1812 — 1242 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grimm's Fairy Stories 4.09 avg rating — 12,950 ratings — published 1812 — 675 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: The Complete First Edition by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Jack D. Zipes (Translator) 4.23 avg rating — 7,684 ratings — published 1815 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sleeping Beauty 3.89 avg rating — 4,242 ratings — published 1697 — 143 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Annotated Brothers Grimm by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Maria Tatar (Editor) 4.45 avg rating — 3,517 ratings — published 2004 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Household Tales by the Brothers Grimm by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm 3.95 avg rating — 3,729 ratings — published 1812 — 441 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Snow White by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Ειρήνη Μάρρα (Translator), Camille Rose Garcia (Illustrator), Frédéric Kédémos 4.04 avg rating — 3,189 ratings — published 1812 — 495 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rapunzel by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm 3.76 avg rating — 2,678 ratings — published 1812 — 169 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Fairy Tales of Brothers Grimm, Volume 1 by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Jack D. Zipes 4.24 avg rating — 2,070 ratings — published 1819 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Jacob Grimm

Teutonic Mythology (4 books)
by

Jacob Grimm,

James Steven Stallybrass (Translator)

4.15 avg rating — 94 ratings

Grimmin sadut (1 book)
by

Jacob Grimm,

Wilhelm Grimm,

Otto Ubbelohde (Illustrator),

Raija Jänicke (Translator),

Oili Suominen (Translator)

3.78 avg rating — 23 ratings

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2015 Fourth Quarter Long Read

1978, The Stand by Stephen King, 1153 pages

27 votes, 17.8%

1853, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville, 663 pages

25 votes, 16.4%

1853, Bleak House by Charles Dickens, 1017 pages

16 votes, 10.5%

1879, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 796 pages

16 votes, 10.5%

1868, The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 667 pages

13 votes, 8.6%

1847, Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, 867 pages

11 votes, 7.2%

1924, The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, 706 pages

10 votes, 6.6%

1812, The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm, 880 pages

9 votes, 5.9%

1982, North and South by John Jakes, 812 pages

7 votes, 4.6%

1915, Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, 684 pages

6 votes, 3.9%

1973, Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, 776 pages

4 votes, 2.6%

1794, The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe, 654 pages

4 votes, 2.6%

1920, Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset, 1168 pages

3 votes, 2.0%

1901, Captains and the Kings by Taylor Caldwell, 816 pages

1 vote, 0.7%

1948, The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer, 721 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

1876, Daniel Deronda by George Eliot, 796 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

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