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Jacob Grimm

1785 - 1863

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Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm (4 January 1785 – 20 September 1863), also known as Ludwig Karl, was a German author, linguist, philologist, jurist, and folklorist. He formulated Grimm's law of linguistics, and was the co-author of the Deutsches Wörterbuch, the author of Deutsche Mythologie, and the editor of Grimms' Fairy Tales. He was the older brother of Wilhelm Grimm; together, they were the literary duo known as the Brothers Grimm. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacob Grimm is the 292nd most popular writer (down from 239th in 2019), the 255th most popular biography from Germany (down from 194th in 2019) and the 18th most popular German Writer.

Jacob Grimm is most famous for his work with his brother Wilhelm on the Grimm's Fairy Tales.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jacob Grimm ranks 292 out of 7,302. Before him are Ludovico Ariosto, Marcus Terentius Varro, Eckhart Tolle, Patrick Modiano, Claude Simon, and Luigi Pirandello. After him are Bram Stoker, Walt Whitman, Alfonso X of Castile, Paul Auster, Karen Blixen, and Alphonse Daudet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1785, Jacob Grimm ranks 3. Before him are Louis XVII of France, and Mahmud II. After him are Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Thomas De Quincey, Alessandro Manzoni, Karl Drais, Lin Zexu, William Jackson Hooker, Claude-Louis Navier, Bettina von Arnim, and Florestan I, Prince of Monaco. Among people deceased in 1863, Jacob Grimm ranks 3. Before him are Eugène Delacroix, and Stonewall Jackson. After him are Dost Mohammad Khan, Frederick VII of Denmark, William Makepeace Thackeray, Sa'id of Egypt, Horace Vernet, Jakob Steiner, Alfred de Vigny, Franz Xaver Gruber, and Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Jacob Grimm ranks 255 out of 7,253. Before him are Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg (1620), Alexander Van der Bellen (1944), Robert Bunsen (1811), Justus von Liebig (1803), Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717), and Heinrich Schütz (1585). After him are Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1282), Werner von Siemens (1816), August Ferdinand Möbius (1790), Helmuth von Moltke the Elder (1800), Anne of Cleves (1515), and Hans Holbein the Younger (1497).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Jacob Grimm ranks 18. Before him are Friedrich Hölderlin (1770), Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729), Nelly Sachs (1891), Paul Heyse (1830), Friedrich Schlegel (1772), and Eckhart Tolle (1948). After him are Ernst Jünger (1895), Michael Ende (1929), Heinrich von Kleist (1777), Karl May (1842), Wilhelm Grimm (1786), and Einhard (770).

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