Grimm Brothers

Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Karl Grimm (1786–1859) were very close brothers, to the point that, when one of the two started a family, the other went to live with him. Numerous disappointments then led them to shut themselves in their fantasy world, a bit like what happened to Tolkien in the last part of his life. Born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, they were linguists and philologists, founding fathers of German studies, authors of a very…