Jacob Grimm
Born
January 4, 1785
Died
September 20, 1863 (78 years old)
Known For
Writing
Place of Birth
Hanau, Germany
German philologist, jurist, and mythologist. He is known as the discoverer of Grimm's law (linguistics), the co-author with his brother Wilhelm of the monumental Deutsches Wörterbuch, the author of Deutsche Mythologie and, more popularly, as one of the Brothers Grimm and the editor of Grimm's Fairy Tales.