The Grimm Brothers

Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Karl Grimm (1786–1859) were brothers, very close to the point that, when one of the two started a family, he took the other to live with him. The numerous disappointments then led them to shut themselves in their fantasy world, a bit like what happened to Tolkien in the last part of life. Born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, they were linguists and philologists, founding fathers of German studies, authors of a very important dictionary which was completed posthumously only in the sixties. Jakob is also famous in glottology for the famous law that takes his name: the first…