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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: People from Gelnhausen, People from Hanau, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Rudi Voller, Franz Bake, Oskar Fischinger, Ulrich von Hutten, Tia Mowry, Georg von Kuchler, Tamera Mowry, John Michael Maisch, Thomas Berthold, Wilhelm Adam, Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, William II, Elector of Hesse, Princess Marie of Hesse-Kassel, Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria, Christoph Broelsch, Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pfluger, Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, Johann Christian Claudius Devaranne, Landgravine Karoline Amalie of Hesse-Kassel, Karoline von Gunderrode, Karl Storck, Heinrich Kuhl, Tayfur Havutcu, Lothar Franz von Schonborn, Roland Vogt, Karl Lorenz, Philip Louis II, Count of Hanau-Munzenberg, Georg von Cancrin, Klaus Reichert, Rosa Albach-Retty, Klaus Ploghaus, Wilhelm Kiesselbach, Jenny Winkler, Friedrich Christian Meuschen, Friedrich Bury, Fritz Alberti. Excerpt: Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm (also Karl; 4 January 1785 - 20 September 1863) was a German philologist, jurist and mythologist. He is best known as the discoverer of Grimm's Law, the author (with his brother) of the monumental Deutsches Worterbuch, the author of Deutsche Mythologie and, more popularly, as one of the Brothers Grimm, as the editor of Grimm's Fairy Tales. Grimm was born in Hanau, in Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel). His father, who was a lawyer, died while he was a child, and his mother was left with very small means; but her sister, who was lady of the chamber to the Landgravine of Hesse, helped to support and educate her numerous family. Jacob, with his younger brother Wilhelm (born on 24 February 1786), was sent in 1798 to the public school at Kassel. In 1802 he proceeded to the University of Marburg, where he studied law, a profession for which he had been destined by his father. His brother joined him at Marburg a year later, having just re...
