# Jacob Grimm

> He gave the world a catalog of dark forests and wicked stepmothers, but spent most of his life chasing the structure of language itself.

*German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785–1863)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** Germany
- **Born:** 1785-01-04
- **Died:** 1863-09-20
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm was born 4 January 1785 in Germany, trained as a jurist, and turned that precision toward words. With his younger brother Wilhelm, he edited the collection that became Grimms' Fairy Tales — not inventing the stories but gathering them from oral tradition. Separately, Jacob formulated Grimm's law, a principle mapping how consonants shift across related languages, and wrote Deutsche Mythologie, tracing the old gods and beliefs beneath European folklore. He co-authored the Deutsches Wörterbuch, a massive historical dictionary of German that outlived him. He died 20 September 1863, having built the scaffolding on which much of modern philology still stands.

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## Topics
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