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Wilhelm Grimm
German author, philologist, collector of fairy tales and legends (1786–1859)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 24 February 1786, 1786
- Died
- 16 December 1859, 1859, 1858
- Part of
- Brothers Grimm, Göttingen Seven
- Place of birth
- Hanau
- Place of death
- Berlin
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Grimm
- Father
- Philipp Grimm
- Mother
- Dorothea Grimm
- Spouse
- Dorothea Grimm
- Sibling
- Jacob Grimm, Charlotte Amalie Grimm, Ludwig Emil Grimm, Carl Friedrich Grimm, Ferdinand Philipp Grimm
- Movement
- Romanticism
- Occupation
- lexicographer, anthropologist, librarian, writer, law librarian, children's writer, pedagogue, linguist, literary scholar, Germanist, jurist, university teacher
- Position held
- Member of the Frankfurt Parliament
- Citizenship
- Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel, Kingdom of Prussia
- Religion
- Reformed Christianity
- archives at
- Museum Haldensleben, Berlin State Library
- birth name
- Wilhelm Karl Grimm
- described by source
- Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, BEIC Digital Library, Iedereen Leest, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Library of the World's Best Literature, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
- has works in the collection
- Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Anne Frank House
- member of
- Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- name in native language
- Wilhelm Grimm
- notable work
- Grimms' fairy tales
- partner in business or sport
- Jacob Grimm
- place of burial
- Alter St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof Berlin
- student
- Leo Meyer, Clemens Friedrich Meyer
- topic's main category
- Category:Wilhelm Grimm
- writing language
- German
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