Feb 15, Allie Feb 13, Feb 14, Feb 2, The bothers grim was so cool it was really gory and awesome I would read more about them and there life. Jan 25, Jan 17, Thought: I read the Sisters Grimm Series. Connection: My favorite Brothers Grimm story is Rumpelstiltskin. Prediction: I think the next wonder will be about Braille. Anonymous Jan 13, The brothers Grimm are awesome! The stories are a little bit gory but very interesting. I especially liked Briar Rose.
Jan 13, Emma Chen Jan 11, Brothers Grimm created Grimm fairy tales. They are very famous to the children. Jan 12, Kat Jan 11, I loved this wonder! Thanks so much, Wonderopolis! Jason Jan 11, Once again commenting! Thanks for the wonderful topic! Thanks, Jason! Fist bump coming at ya! Rexacalaforabatobius Jan 11, I thought that the brothers Grimm were dragons that lived in the cave of Linolia in the Chronicles of Gnofynger.
Carter Jan 11, Is Batman a fairy tale????? Cause that is what it says when you take the quiz. It's the last question. Jan 11, Do you think we should learn about a guy made out of wood and he was on the earth last years ago find better wonders talk about SPORTS.
Rin Jan 11, Haha, yeah! I've heard of those two in some show called Ever After High! I didn't even know they existed. It's crazy though, cause in Ever After High they were like in charge of fairy tales, so this sort of makes sense? I'm surprised because they're actual humans. Gatlin tUrTlEzzz Jan 11, This is awsome can you say hi to my turtle friend his name is turtlezz and can you make a wonder about houdini.
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Share Results. By the twentieth century, they would become the most famous collection of folk and fairy tales in the western world. When Jacob b. They grew up quite fast, plagued by money problems and caring for their siblings—their father died in , leaving the once middle-class family in poverty. Their situation was further aggravated by the rampant Napoleonic Wars. Jacob interrupted his studies to serve the Hessian War Commission, although Wilhelm passed his law exams and found work as a low- paid librarian in the royal library.
Amidst all the upheavals, their mother died in , and Jacob and Wilhelm became fully responsible for their three younger brothers and sister. Despite difficult personal problems and meager financial support from to , the brothers proved themselves to be innovative scholars in the new field of German philology by publishing articles and books on medieval literature.
In fact, they would be surprised to learn that they are more famous today for their tales than for their superb philological studies, which include pioneering work on German sound shifts, and the founding of the voluminous German Dictionary in But it was their training in philology and the demands that they placed on themselves as researchers that assisted their collecting and editing the tales.
In , their friend, the romantic poet Clemens Brentano, asked them to collect all types of folk tales so he could use them in a book of literary fairy tales.
In , they sent him fifty-four texts, which they fortunately copied. When they realized that Brentano was not going to use the tales, they decided, upon the advice of another romantic writer and mutual friend, Achim von Arnim, to publish their collection. It had grown to eighty-six tales, which they published in , and then another seventy, which they published in What compelled the Grimms to concentrate on old German epics, tales, and literature was a belief that the most natural and pure forms of culture—those which held the community together—were linguistic and based in history.
According to them, modern literature, even though it might be remarkably rich, was artificial and thus could not express the genuine essence of Volk culture that emanated naturally from experience and bound the people together. Therefore, all their efforts went toward uncovering stories from the past. Learn about Martin Luther King Jr.
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The Grimms worked on more than fairy tales University-trained philologists the study of language in historical texts and librarians, Jacob and Wilhelm published more than fairy tales. By Wendy Mead. By Catherine McHugh. The brothers Grimm published what would become one of the most influential and famous collections of folklore in the world. The Grimms, however, had curated the collection as an academic anthology for scholars of German culture, not as a collection of bedtime stories for young readers.
Amid the political and social turbulence of the Napoleonic Wars , as France conquered Germanic lands, Jacob and Wilhelm were driven by nationalism to highlight their homeland and heritage. They were inspired by German Romantic authors and philosophers who believed that the purest forms of culture, those that bonded a community, could be found in stories shared from generation to generation.
Storytelling expressed the essence of German culture and recalled the spirit and basic values of its people. Like Cinderella and many of the characters in their folktales, the story of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm is a rags-to-riches one. In , just a few days after Jacob, the eldest, turned 11, their father died suddenly of pneumonia, plunging the once middle-class family of six children into poverty.
The inseparable pair shared the same diligent work habits, studying for up to 12 hours a day. After graduating, Jacob moved to Marburg in to study law at the university; Wilhelm followed a year later. But this setback later proved fortuitous. Jacob and Wilhelm were prolific letter-writers during their rare times apart, and while in Paris, Jacob wrote to Wilhelm in Marburg of his desire to devote his life to the study of German literary history.
Arnim and Brentano had published a collection of old German folk songs, and Brentano, wanting to continue his philological pursuits, asked the Grimms for their help in combing library shelves for folktales. The brothers found some texts in books, but they also focused on oral traditions, seeking out storytellers in friends and acquaintances.
Most of them were women, one of whom, Dorothea Wild, would later marry Wilhelm. She shared the many tales that travelers had told to her. Brentano did not use the 54 tales that Jacob and Wilhelm sent him in , but Arnim urged them to publish their collection nonetheless. Over a year span, seven editions of the folktale collection were published.
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