Wilhelm Grimm

Wilhelm Grimm

Born	Wilhelm Carl Grimm (1786-02-24)24 February 1786 Hanau, Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel, Holy Roman Empire
Died	16 December 1859(1859-12-16) (aged 73) Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia, German Confederation
Alma mater	University of Marburg
Children	Herman Grimm
Parents	Philipp Grimm (father) Dorothea Grimm (mother)
Relatives	Jacob Grimm (brother) Ludwig Emil Grimm (brother) Gisela von Arnim (daughter-in-law) Ludwig Hassenpflug (brother-in-law)

Wilhelm Carl Grimm (also Karl;^[a] 24 February 1786 – 16 December 1859) was a German author and anthropologist. He was the younger brother of Jacob Grimm, of the literary duo the Brothers Grimm.

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Life and work

Wilhelm was born in February 1786 in Hanau, in Hesse-Kassel. In 1803, he started studying law at the University of Marburg, one year after his brother Jacob started there. The two brothers spent their entire lives close together. In their school days, they had one bed and one table in common; as students, they had two beds and two tables in the same room. They always lived under one roof and had their books and property in common.^[5]

In 1825, 39-year-old Wilhelm married pharmacist's daughter Henriette Dorothea Wild, also known as Dortchen.^[6] Wilhelm's marriage did not change the harmony of the brothers.^[5] Richard Cleasby visited the brothers and observed, "they both live in the same house, and in such harmony and community that one might almost imagine the children were common property."^[5]^[7]

Wilhelm's character was a complete contrast to that of his brother. As a boy, he was strong and healthy, but while growing up he suffered a long and severe illness which left him weak the rest of his life. He had a less comprehensive and energetic mind than his brother, and he had less of the spirit of investigation, preferring to confine himself to some limited and definitely bounded field of work. He utilized everything that bore directly on his own studies and ignored the rest. These studies were almost always of a literary nature.^[5]

Wilhelm took great delight in music, for which his brother had but a moderate liking, and he had a remarkable gift of story-telling. Cleasby relates that "Wilhelm read a sort of farce written in the Frankfort dialect, depicting the 'malheurs' of a rich Frankfort tradesman on a holiday jaunt on Sunday. It was very droll, and he read it admirably." Cleasby describes him as "an uncommonly animated, jovial fellow." He was, accordingly, much sought in society, which he frequented much more than his brother.^[5]

A collection of fairy tales was first published in 1812 by the Grimm brothers, known in English as Grimms' Fairy Tales.

From 1837 to 1841, the Grimm brothers joined five of their colleague professors at the University of Göttingen to form a group known as the Göttinger Sieben (The Göttingen Seven). They protested against Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, whom they accused of violating the constitution. All seven were fired by the king.

Wilhelm Grimm died in Berlin of an infection at the age of 73 on December 16, 1859.

Children

Wilhelm and Henriette had four children together:

Jacob (3 April 1826 – 15 December 1826)
Herman Friedrich (6 January 1828 – 16 June 1901), also a noted writer
Rudolf Georg (31 March 1830 – 13 November 1889)
Barbara Auguste Luise Pauline Marie (21 August 1832 – 9 February 1919)

Notes

^ The Neue Deutsche Biographie records their names as "Grimm, Jacob Ludwig Carl"^[1] and "Grimm, Wilhelm Carl".^[2] The Deutsches Biographisches Archiv [de] records Wilhelm's name as "Grimm, Wilhelm Karl".^[2] The Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie gives the names as "Grimm: Jacob (Ludwig Karl)"^[3] and "Grimm: Wilhelm (Karl)".^[4] The National Union Catalog Pre-1956 Imprints also gives Wilhelm's name as "Grimm, Wilhelm Karl".^[2]

References

^ Deutsche National Bibliothek, citing Neue Deutsche Biographie.
^ ^a ^b ^c Deutsche National Bibliothek, citing Neue Deutsche Biographie, Deutsches Biographisches Archiv [de] and The National Union Catalog Pre-1956 Imprints.
^ Wilhelm Scherer (1879), "Grimm, Jacob (Ludwig Karl)", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 9, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 678–688
^ Wilhelm Scherer (1879), "Grimm, Wilhelm (Karl)", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 9, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 690–695
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Sweet, Henry (1911). "Grimm, Wilhelm Carl". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 602.
^ "The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales – #FolkloreThursday". 6 April 2017. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
^ "Life of Cleasby," prefixed to his Icelandic Dictionary, p. lxix.

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Works by the Brothers Grimm in eBook form at Standard Ebooks
Grimm Brothers' Home Page
Works by Wilhelm Grimm at Project Gutenberg
Works by Wilhelm Carl Grimm at Faded Page (Canada)
Works by or about Wilhelm Grimm at Internet Archive
Works by Wilhelm Grimm at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
Household Tales by the Brothers Grimm, translated by Margaret Hunt (This site is the only one to feature all of the Grimms' notes translated in English along with the tales from Hunt's original edition. Andrew Lang's introduction is also included.)
Literature by and about Wilhelm Grimm in the German National Library catalogue
Works by and about Wilhelm Grimm in the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (German Digital Library)
There is literature about Wilhelm Grimm in the Hessian Bibliography

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