Jacob Grimm

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Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm (born January 1785 – September 20, 1863) was a German philologist, jurist, and mythologist.

He is known as the discoverer of Grimm's linguistics law, as the co-author of the monumental Deutsche Mythologie, undimming of the word's, and editor of Grimm's Fairy Tales.

He was the elder of the Brothers Grimm.

Life and books

Jacob Grimm was born in Hanau, Hesse-Kassel, on January 4th, 1785. Philipp Grimm, his father, died as Jacob was a child, and his mother was left with a tiny fortune. Her sister, the chamber's keeper of Hesse, was a member of the family and taught it. In 1798, Jacob and his younger brother Wilhelm were admitted to Kassel's public school.

He went to the University of Marburg in 1802, where he studied law, a field for which he had been designed by his father. A year later, his brother joined him in Marburg, having just recovered from a serious illness, and his sister began studying law.

In the preface to the Deutsche Grammatik (German Grammar), Jacob Grimm was inspired by Friedrich Karl von Savigny, a noted Roman law specialist; Wilhelm Grimm; the brothers were given a knowledge of science. Savigny's lectures reignited in Jacob a passion for historical and antiquarian research, which underlies all of his work. Grimm first saw Bodmer's Middle German minnesingers and other early texts in Savigny's library, sparking him to learn their language.

He was invited by Savigny to Paris in 1805 to assist him in his literary projects. There Grimm developed his Middle Age literature. He returned to Kassel, where his mother and brother had settled after Wilhelm completed his studies. Jacob took up a small salary in the war office in the following year. He argued that he had to trade his chic Paris suit for a tight uniform and pigtail, but that free time was given to him to continue his studies.

He was appointed superintendent of Jérôme Bonaparte, King of Westphalia, in 1808, just after his mother's death, into which Hesse-Kassel had been integrated by Napoleon. Grimm was appointed an auditor to the state council but kept his superintendent post. His salary soared to 4000 francs, and his administrative duties were no longer fulfilled. Grimm was appointed Secretary of Legation in 1813, following the removal of Bonaparte and the reinstatement of an elector. In 1814, he was sent to Paris to demand that books be returned to the French heirs, and he was ambassador to Vienna as Secretary of Legation in 1814-1815. On his return from Vienna, he was taken to Paris again to try to gain book restitutions. During that time, Wilhelm had obtained a job at the Kassel library, and Jacob had been promoted to second librarian under Volkel in 1816. The brothers both expected promotion upon Volkel's death in 1828, but they were dissatisfied when Rommel, the archives' keeper, was given the position. As a result, they moved to Göttingen, where Jacob was appointed professor and librarian, as well as Wilhelm under-librarian. Jacob Grimm spoke about constitutional antiquities, historical grammar, literary history, and diplomatics, as well as Old German poems, which followed the Germania of Tacitus.

Grimm joined other scholars, the Göttingen Seven, who backed a demonstration against the King of Hanover's abrogation of the liberal constitution, which had been underway some years before. As a result, he was banned from his professorship and barred from the kingdom of Hanover in 1837. He and his brother, who had also signed the resistance, returned to Kassel. They stayed at the University of Berlin until 1840, when they accepted King Frederick William IV's invitation to move to Berlin, where they earned professorships and were elected members of the Academy of Sciences. Grimm was not under any obligation to teach, and he scarcely did so; he spent his time with his brother on their dictionary project. During his stay in Kassel, he attended the academy's meetings and read papers on a variety of topics, including Karl Konrad Friedrich Schiller, old age, and the origins of words. He shared his impressions of Italian and Scandinavian travel, interspersing more general observations with linguistic specifics. In 1857, he was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Grimm died in Berlin at the age of 78, serving until the very end of his life. At the end of his autobiography, he refers to his own work

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