- Wilhelm Grimm
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name = Wilhelm Grimm
birthdate =February 24 ,1786
location =Hanau ,Germany
deathdate =December 16 ,1859 (age 73)
deathplace =Berlin ,Germany Wilhelm Carl Grimm (
February 24 ,1786 –December 16 1859 ) was a German author, the younger of theBrothers Grimm .He was born in
Hanau ,Germany and in 1803 he started studyinglaw at theUniversity of Marburg , one year after his brother Jacob started there.In 1825 Wilhelm married Henriette Dorothea Wild, also known as "Dortchen".
From 1837-1841 the Grimm Brothers joined five of their colleague professors at the
University of Göttingen to form a group known as the "Göttinger Sieben " ("The Göttingen Seven"). They protested against Ernst August, King ofHanover , whom they accused of violating theconstitution . All seven were fired by the king.Wilhelm Grimm died in Berlin at the age of 73.
In
Terry Gilliam 's "The Brothers Grimm",Academy Award winnerMatt Damon played a fictionalized version of Wilhelm. A slightly less fictionalized version of Wilhelm was played byLaurence Harvey in the 1962 film "The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm ".Individual works of Wilhelm Grimm
*"Altdänische Heldenlieder, Balladen und Märchen" (Old Danish Heroic Lays, Ballads, and Folktales) in 1811
*"Über deutsche Runen" (On German Runes) in 1821.
*"Die deutsche Heldensage" (The German Heroic Legend) in 1829.References
* [http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm.html Grimm Brothers' Home Page]
External links
* [http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms.html Household Tales by the Brothers Grimm, translated by Margaret Hunt] (This site is the only one to feature all of the Grimms' notes translated in English along with the tales from Hunt's original edition. Andrew Lang's introduction is also included.)
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