Biography Grimm

Latest news Biography Brothers Grimm-German storytellers, linguists, founding fathers of German philology. Perhaps it will be difficult to find a person who has never heard the tales of these great writers. But if I didn’t hear, I certainly saw it. According to the plots of the works of the Grimm brothers, dozens of films and cartoons were shot, many performances were staged.

And some characters of their fairy tales became even household names - Cinderella, Rapunzel, sleeping beauty. Childhood and youth Jacob Grimm was born on January 4 of the year, and a year later - February 24 - Wilhelm Grimm was born. In the year, he was appointed to the post of head of the Steinau district, where the whole family had to move. The man worked for days and nights, as a result of fatigue and overwork, the ordinary cold grew into pneumonia.

In the year he died, he was 44 years old. The Grimm brothers, of course, for the Grimm family, this has become a tragedy. Dorothea Grimm - the mother of the brothers - was left alone with six children. At this time, the father of the father, Charlotte Schrommer, moved to them, it was she who provided financial assistance to the family and saved from eviction from the house. But the trouble came to Grimm again - Aunt Schlomer suddenly fell down and died suddenly.

Jacob and Wilhelm were older children, and they had to take part of the duties of the mother. But Dorothea understood that the boys were smart and talented, and the only thing she could give them is an education. Jacob Grimm lived in Kassel, her sister - Henrietta Zimmer, the woman agreed to accept her favorite nephews at herself so that they continue to study at the Lyceum of the Higher Stage.

At the gymnasium, students studied years. But the brothers were so hardworking and reinforced that they managed to master the material many times faster than the rest. Therefore, they finished the Lyceum after four years. At school, boys studied natural science, geography, ethics, physics and philosophy, but the basis of teaching was philological and historical disciplines. Jacob nevertheless was more easier than his brother.

It is possible that the reason for this was his good health. Wilhelm was diagnosed with asthma. Wilhelm Grimm in the year Jacob entered the University of Marburg for a lawyer, but Wilhelm had to stay to undergo treatment. The next year, Jacob moved his brother to Marburg, and he also entered the university. True, he needed regular medical supervision. In his free time, the brothers loved to draw, once the younger brother Ludwig Emil, who was so inspired by this matter, was seen by the paintings that he connected his future with an art craft, becoming a popular engraver and artist in Germany.

Literature brothers Grimm have always been interested in literature. With all the fact that they graduated from the Faculty of Law, their German poetry beckoned, which Professor Savigny revealed to them. Jacob and Wilhelm were sitting for hours to study old folios in his home library. Portraits of the Grimm brothers all the further activities of the Grimm brothers were directly related to German literature, philological problems, and research work.

Tales are only part of the incredible amount of work that brothers in the field of literature and linguistics did. In the year, Jacob went to Paris to help Professor Savigny collect materials for scientific work. Wilhelm remained at the university. Since childhood, they were so close to each other that even at this age they experienced unprecedented longing in separation, as evidenced by their correspondence.

The monument to the Grimm brothers in Hanau in the year their mother died, and all the concerns of the Grimm family fell on the shoulders of Jacob. Returning from France, he was looking for work with decent wages for a long time and eventually got a job in the Kasselsky castle, managing the personal royal library. Wilhelm again worsened the state of health, and his brother sent him to the resort.

He did not have a permanent place of work at that time. Upon the return of Wilhelm from treatment, the brothers took up work - they began to investigate ancient German literature. They managed to collect, process and record dozens of folk legends, which were transmitted from the mouth for hundreds of years. The Grimm brothers collect folk tales in the creation of the first volume of fairy tales by many women in cassel.

For example, a wealthy pharmacy - Mr. Wild with his wife and children lived next door to Grimm. Frau Wilde knew the uncountable number of stories that Vilgelm told with pleasure. Sometimes they were joined by her daughters - Gretchen and Dortchen. It will take a lot of years, neither Dortchen will become the wife of Wilhelm. The housekeeper - Maria Muller lived in their house.

An elderly woman had a phenomenal memory, and she knew thousands of fairy tales. Maria told the brothers the story of a beautiful sleeping beauty and a bold red cap. But, recalling these tales, Charles Perrault immediately comes to mind. As it turned out, it is extremely difficult to find a true author of a fairy tale. In fact, these are folk European tales. An illustration for the fairy tale of the Grimm brothers “Sleeping Beauty” Each compiler, including Grimm, interpreted these stories in his own way.

Here, for example, is a fairy tale about Cinderella.In the version of the Perrot Miracles for the girl, her godfather-Feja performs. And the brothers Grimm has a hazel tree on a grave of her mother. Later, based on this story, the movie "Three Nuts for Cinderella" will be shot. In the year in the life of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the first success happened - they published a collection “Children's and Family Tales”, which included works.

Writers immediately began to prepare material for the second book. It included many fairy tales heard and not the Grimm brothers themselves, but their friends. As before, writers reserved the right to give fairy tales their own language edition. Their second book saw the light of the year. True, books were reprinted. The monument to the Grimm brothers in Castel is that some fairy tales were regarded inappropriate for children.

For example, a fragment was removed where Rapunzel is innocently interested in the godmother, why the dress was so covered with a rounded stomach. It was about her pregnancy, which came after secret meetings with the prince. The first translator of the fairy tales of the Grimm brothers for the Russian reader was Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky. An illustration for the fairy tale of the Grimm Golden Goose brothers in the year brothers published the volume of “German grammar”.

This work became a sensation in the scientific community, it was written about 20 years - it was it that became the basis for all subsequent research of Germanic languages. But still the main work of the brothers was the "German dictionary." They started working on it in a year. It was hard and long work. After years, Thomas Mann called the "Dictionary" "heroic business", "philological monument." Contrary to the name, in fact it was a comparative historical dictionary of Germanic languages.

Since the writers did not manage to finish work on the dictionary, their business was continued by the next generations of philologists. Thus, it was possible to complete the work by the year - years after its beginning. Vilhelm Grimm’s personal life in the house of the pharmacist Wilde met his daughter - Dorthen. At that time, she was still quite a baby. The difference between them is 10 years.

But, having matured, young people immediately found a common language. The girl supported him in all endeavors, becoming primarily for him. In the year, the couple got married. The Grimm brothers soon became pregnant. In the year, Dortkhen gave birth to a boy who was called Jacob, and Jacob Sr. became his godfather. But six months later, the baby died of jaundice. In January of the year, the spouses had a second son - German.

He later chose the profession of an art critic. But Jacob Grimm remained a bachelor, a man devoted his life to his life and his brother's life. Death on December 16, Wilhelm Grimm died. A deadly disease was provoked by a boil on the back. He had not yet been in good health, but this time no one expected such a sad outcome. Every day Wilhelm was getting worse. The operation did not help.

The man had a temperature. His suffering ceased from the paralysis of the lungs in two weeks.

Jacob continued to live with the widow of Wilhelm and his nephews. The graves of the brothers Grimm until the end of his life the writer worked on the dictionary. The last word that he recorded was the word "frich" fruit. The man became bad at the desk.