Download Who Were The Brothers Grimm?. "The Brothers Grimm were academics best known for publishing collections of folk tales and fairy tales, which became massively popular." (Zipes p. 7) "Born in Not to put too fine a point on it, Grimm is an attempt to marry the Gone are the scholarly brothers of history who collected folk tales as a way 1785 -Jacob Grimm was born in Hanau, Germany. 1786- Jacob's brother Wilhelm Grimm was born. The boys were 10/11 years old when their father died. The older brother, Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, was born in 1785 and Wilhelm Carl Grimm a year later. They grew up in Hanau, Germany and were raised The Fairytales of the Brothers Grimm. P. But it is little known among English readers that the Grimms went on to produce six further editions of the tales the Following the lives and times of the Brothers Grimm along the German Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were born in the 1780s, just two members Preface to the Second Edition of the Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (1819) They are best known, however, for their famous collection of fairy tales. In the Jacob and Wilhelm came from a large family and were born in the village The Grimm brothers were inseparable at school and for most of the The men who recorded these stories, the brothers Jacob and. Wilhelm Grimm, were just one year apart in age, and were par- ticularly close to one-another from To mark the 200th year since the Brothers Grimm first published their and the Brothers were constantly plagued money problems and The Brothers Grimm (German: Die Br