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Jacob Grimm

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Profession
Novelist
Died
Sep 20, 1863
Zodiac
Capricorn
Born in
HanauGermany
About
One half of the Brothers Grimm, he and his brother Wilhelm co-wrote fairytales such as Hansel and Gretel and Snow White. His best-known works include Kinder-und Hausmärchen (Grimms' Fairy Tales) and Deutsche Mythologie. A noted philologist in addition to a mythologist, he also published the Deutsches Wörterbuch, a comprehensive German dictionary.
Family
He never married, and he lived for a time with his brother and literary collaborator Wilhelm.

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