GRIMM, Jacob

Along with brother Wilhelm, collector of German and wider European fairy tales. Significant in establishing the historical record and varying format of such. More especially for moral education highly revealing of contemporary value assumptions and realities regarding internal family tensions and antipathies, physical violence, animal life and death

Life

• The Brothers Grimm website with biographies and links to other materials by and about them

• Britannica biography of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

Works

• Household Tales

• Works by the Brothers Grimm on Project Gutenberg