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1785 (Jacob); 1786 (Wilhelm) – 1863 (Jacob); 1859 (Wilhelm) · Hanau
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Born Hanau, Germany
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Jacob Grimm (1785 to 1863) and his brother Wilhelm (1786 to 1859) were born in Hanau, in the German region of Hesse. Their father, a lawyer, died when they were boys, which left the family poor. They studied law at Marburg, where a professor named Friedrich Carl von Savigny let them use his private library. Its medieval manuscripts turned them toward old German writing.
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