Jacob and wilhelm Grimm
Jacob Grimm was born on January 4th, 1784 and Wilhelm Grimm was born on February 24th, 1786 in Hanau in Hasse-Kassel, Germany. They had a large family consisting of nine children, eight boys and one girl. As small children the Grimm Brothers spent most of their time together; aside from the brief period of being apart, the remained together for the rest of their lives. Their even-tempered personalities made it easier for them to work together on their projects. The difference between Jacob and Wilhelm's personalities was that Jacob was healthier, and had more taste for research work. Jacob was the one who worked out most of their theories of language and grammar. Wilhelm was phsically weaker but was a warmer person and more interested in music and literature. Wilhelm was responsible for the pleasant style of their collection of fairytales that they collected.
In the 1800's the Grimm Brothers would collect fairytales from the people in Hasse to read and analyze. In 1812, the Grimm Brothers published their first volume of folklore and legend tales called Kinder-und Hausmarchen (Tales of Children and the Home). This volume of stories consisted of eighty six recorded stories told by villagers. The Grimm Brothers second volume consisted of two different parts named Deutsche Sagen (German Legends) and Altdeutsche Walder (Old German Forests) which consisted of seventy stories. Their stories were a success, and the brothers were recognized for their work in 1819 with honorary doctorates from Marburg University.
The Romantic Movement in Germany (a movement in arts that favored return to nature and had a greater focus on national culture, especially folktales) awakened the Germans interest in the past of their own country. In the 1800's the German people only wrote poetry about the midieval times. The Grimm Brothers were the most important of early languages and folklore romantic historians. This is because they found a new technique of writing besides poetry. The Brothers stayed in contact with romantic poets Clemens Brentano (1778-1842) and Achim Von Achim (1781-1831) who was preparing a collection of German Folk song for some years. Achim Von Achim helped the Grimm Brothers improve their writing skills.
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's writing legacy contained legends, novellas, and folk stories. More than half the books written by the Grimm Brothers were not intended as children's tales. Van Achim who worked with the Grimm Brothers suggested that the stories such as those that talked about children being eaten and removed; instead, the Grimm Brothers added an introduction for parents to steer children toward the age appropriate stories. Von Achim was upset that they did not remove the grusome stories. The Grimm Brothers did not want to eliminate tales from their collections because the brothers believed that all the tales were of value and reflected cultural qualities.
The Grimm Brothers wrote different kinds of stories that at one point dictated that discipline relied on fear. The Grimm Fairytales Hansel and Grethel and Little Red Riding Hood were written to be warning tales for the children. This is because if they showed these books, the children would either stop reading the fairytales or continue reading the fairytales. Their stories included scenes of violence that have since been sanitized. A few examples of this would be in the Grimm's version of Snow White, and The Frog Prince. In the end of Snow White, the stepmom is dancing at Snow Whites wedding wearing a pair of red-hot iron shoes that kill her. In The Frog Prince, the princess throws the frog at the wall instead of kissing it.
Tales of spinning motif are represented in the Grimm Brothers collections. These stories reflect the degree's in which spinning was crucial in women's lives in the 19th century and even earlier. In Rumpelstitskin, spinning was associated with a threat. In other sotries spinning may be avoided by a character that was either to lazy or not accustomed to spinning because of high status. These tales were also criticized for being insufficiently German, which not only influenced the tales of the Grimm Brothers, but their use of language. Some of the Grimm Brothers fairytales are an accurate depiction of German culture showing rustic simplicity and sexual modesty. An example of this is Little Red Riding Hood; this is because German culture is deeply in the forest that is a dark dangerous place to be avoided, and yet a place where Little Red Riding Hood's mother sent her daughter to deliver food to her grandmother's house.
In later years, the Grimm Brothers led to a study of older language to their relationship to modern German. Jacob began to specialize the history and structure of German language, and with that he published his first addition of Deutsche Grammatik (German Grammar) in 1819. The Grimm Brothers, but more of Jacob, also worked on a document to show the relationship between similar words of related language. For example, the English apple and the German apfel. The creation of the rules they created for such relationships became known as the Grimm's Law. The Grimm Brothers were not the first to find the similarities and relationships of different languages, but they were credited with gathering the data and working out the details of their rules.
In 1830 the brothers moved to the Universtiy of Gottingen, where Jacob became a professor and the head librarian, while Wilhelm became the assistant librarian. Both were dismissed in 1835 for political reasons, this is because they joined in signing a protest against the King's decision to abolish the Hanover Constitution. They both then received professions at Berlin, Germany where they remained. The Grimm Brothers last years were spent preparing a complete dictionary of German language. Published in 1854, the first volume of their dictionary that was only 1,824 pages only got to the word Biermolke, and four of the dictionary pages were the letter A, which was termed as the most noble and primeval of all sounds. The Grimm Brithers dictionary was carried on for generations from scholars after the brother's death's (Wilhelm died on December 16th, 1859 and Jacob died on September 20th, 1863), and it was finished in 1960. The Grimm Brother's final pieces of work that Jacob finished alone consisted of sixteen large volumes of German language dictionaries.
REFERENCES
World of Tales. (2008-2012). Retrieved October 19, 2012, from The Brother's Grimm Biography:
http://www.notablebiographies.com/Gi-He/Grimm-Brothers.html
Encyclopedia of World Biography. (2012). Retrieved October 19th, 2012, from the Brother's Grimm Biography:
http;//www.notablebiographies.com/Gi-He/Grimm-Brothers.html
Branch,A. (n.d.). Literature Collection. Retrieved October 19, 2012, from Grimm Brothers - Biography and Works:
http://www.literaturecollection.com/a/grimm-brothers/
Wikipedia. (2012,October18). Wikipedia. Retrieved October 19, 2012, from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_Grimm
In the 1800's the Grimm Brothers would collect fairytales from the people in Hasse to read and analyze. In 1812, the Grimm Brothers published their first volume of folklore and legend tales called Kinder-und Hausmarchen (Tales of Children and the Home). This volume of stories consisted of eighty six recorded stories told by villagers. The Grimm Brothers second volume consisted of two different parts named Deutsche Sagen (German Legends) and Altdeutsche Walder (Old German Forests) which consisted of seventy stories. Their stories were a success, and the brothers were recognized for their work in 1819 with honorary doctorates from Marburg University.
The Romantic Movement in Germany (a movement in arts that favored return to nature and had a greater focus on national culture, especially folktales) awakened the Germans interest in the past of their own country. In the 1800's the German people only wrote poetry about the midieval times. The Grimm Brothers were the most important of early languages and folklore romantic historians. This is because they found a new technique of writing besides poetry. The Brothers stayed in contact with romantic poets Clemens Brentano (1778-1842) and Achim Von Achim (1781-1831) who was preparing a collection of German Folk song for some years. Achim Von Achim helped the Grimm Brothers improve their writing skills.
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's writing legacy contained legends, novellas, and folk stories. More than half the books written by the Grimm Brothers were not intended as children's tales. Van Achim who worked with the Grimm Brothers suggested that the stories such as those that talked about children being eaten and removed; instead, the Grimm Brothers added an introduction for parents to steer children toward the age appropriate stories. Von Achim was upset that they did not remove the grusome stories. The Grimm Brothers did not want to eliminate tales from their collections because the brothers believed that all the tales were of value and reflected cultural qualities.
The Grimm Brothers wrote different kinds of stories that at one point dictated that discipline relied on fear. The Grimm Fairytales Hansel and Grethel and Little Red Riding Hood were written to be warning tales for the children. This is because if they showed these books, the children would either stop reading the fairytales or continue reading the fairytales. Their stories included scenes of violence that have since been sanitized. A few examples of this would be in the Grimm's version of Snow White, and The Frog Prince. In the end of Snow White, the stepmom is dancing at Snow Whites wedding wearing a pair of red-hot iron shoes that kill her. In The Frog Prince, the princess throws the frog at the wall instead of kissing it.
Tales of spinning motif are represented in the Grimm Brothers collections. These stories reflect the degree's in which spinning was crucial in women's lives in the 19th century and even earlier. In Rumpelstitskin, spinning was associated with a threat. In other sotries spinning may be avoided by a character that was either to lazy or not accustomed to spinning because of high status. These tales were also criticized for being insufficiently German, which not only influenced the tales of the Grimm Brothers, but their use of language. Some of the Grimm Brothers fairytales are an accurate depiction of German culture showing rustic simplicity and sexual modesty. An example of this is Little Red Riding Hood; this is because German culture is deeply in the forest that is a dark dangerous place to be avoided, and yet a place where Little Red Riding Hood's mother sent her daughter to deliver food to her grandmother's house.
In later years, the Grimm Brothers led to a study of older language to their relationship to modern German. Jacob began to specialize the history and structure of German language, and with that he published his first addition of Deutsche Grammatik (German Grammar) in 1819. The Grimm Brothers, but more of Jacob, also worked on a document to show the relationship between similar words of related language. For example, the English apple and the German apfel. The creation of the rules they created for such relationships became known as the Grimm's Law. The Grimm Brothers were not the first to find the similarities and relationships of different languages, but they were credited with gathering the data and working out the details of their rules.
In 1830 the brothers moved to the Universtiy of Gottingen, where Jacob became a professor and the head librarian, while Wilhelm became the assistant librarian. Both were dismissed in 1835 for political reasons, this is because they joined in signing a protest against the King's decision to abolish the Hanover Constitution. They both then received professions at Berlin, Germany where they remained. The Grimm Brothers last years were spent preparing a complete dictionary of German language. Published in 1854, the first volume of their dictionary that was only 1,824 pages only got to the word Biermolke, and four of the dictionary pages were the letter A, which was termed as the most noble and primeval of all sounds. The Grimm Brithers dictionary was carried on for generations from scholars after the brother's death's (Wilhelm died on December 16th, 1859 and Jacob died on September 20th, 1863), and it was finished in 1960. The Grimm Brother's final pieces of work that Jacob finished alone consisted of sixteen large volumes of German language dictionaries.
REFERENCES
World of Tales. (2008-2012). Retrieved October 19, 2012, from The Brother's Grimm Biography:
http://www.notablebiographies.com/Gi-He/Grimm-Brothers.html
Encyclopedia of World Biography. (2012). Retrieved October 19th, 2012, from the Brother's Grimm Biography:
http;//www.notablebiographies.com/Gi-He/Grimm-Brothers.html
Branch,A. (n.d.). Literature Collection. Retrieved October 19, 2012, from Grimm Brothers - Biography and Works:
http://www.literaturecollection.com/a/grimm-brothers/
Wikipedia. (2012,October18). Wikipedia. Retrieved October 19, 2012, from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_Grimm