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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm lived in this house in Steinau from 1791 to 1796.. Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm and Wilhelm Carl Grimm were born on 4 January 1785 and 24 February 1786, respectively, in Hanau in the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel, within the Holy Roman Empire (present-day Germany), to Philipp Wilhelm Grimm, a jurist, and Dorothea Grimm (née Zimmer), daughter of a Kassel city councilman. [1]
The "Town Musicians of Bremen" (German: Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and published in Grimms' Fairy Tales in 1819 (KHM 27). [1] It tells the story of four ageing domestic animals, who after a lifetime of hard work are neglected and mistreated by their former masters.
The Deutsches Wörterbuch was begun by the Brothers Grimm in 1838 and the initial volumes were published in 1854. Unfinished at the time of their deaths, the dictionary was finally completed by a succession of later scholars and institutions in 1961. [1] In 1971, a 33rd supplement volume was published containing 25,000 additional entries.
Grimm is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alexander Grimm (born 1986), German slalom canoeist; Brothers Grimm, German linguists Jacob Grimm (1785–1863), German philologist, jurist and mythologist; Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859), German author, the younger of the Brothers Grimm; Carl Hugo Grimm (1890–1978), American composer
The next edition was published in 1980 under the name The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and was greatly expanded to 20 volumes with 22,500 articles and 16,500 biographies. [5] Its senior editor was Stanley Sadie with Nigel Fortune also serving as one of the main editors for the publication.
The Brothers Grimm collected a tale in the first edition of their compilation with the name Der Vogel Phönix (English: "The Phoenix Bird"), where the hero was found by a miller in a box cast into the water and he is tasked with getting three feathers from the "Phoenix Bird", who lives in a hut atop a mountain in the company of an old lady. [27]
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"The Riddle" (German: Das Rätsel) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales in 1819 (KHM 22). It is of Aarne-Thompson type 851 ("Winning the Princess with a Riddle"). [1] The tale is mainly used in children's adaptions of Grimm's Fairy Tales. Andrew Lang included it in The Green Fairy Book.