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Wilhelm Grimm

German author, philologist, collector of fairy tales and legends (1786–1859)

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Biography

Nationality
Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel
Gender
male
Date of birth
February 24, 1786
Occupation
jurist, librarian, pedagogue, university teacher, anthropologist, children's writer, germanist, law librarian, philologist, linguist, lexicographer, literary scholar, mythographer, collector of fairy tales, writer
Place of birth
Hanau
Country of birth
Germany
Date of death
December 16, 1859 (73 years)