When was Jacob Grimm born and where?
Jacob Grimm was born on the 4th of January 1785, in Hanau in Hesse-Kassel. His father Philipp Grimm was a lawyer who died while Jacob was a child.
Questions about Jacob Grimm
Short answers, pulled from the story.
What is Grimm's law in linguistics?
Grimm's law, also called the First Germanic Sound Shift or the Rask-Grimm Rule, describes the systematic correspondence of consonants between Proto-Indo-European and its Germanic descendants, including Low Saxon and High German. It was first fully stated by Jacob Grimm in the second edition of the first part of his Deutsche Grammatik in 1822, and it was the first non-trivial sound-change law in the history of linguistics.
How long did the Deutsches Wörterbuch take to complete?
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm began the Deutsches Wörterbuch in 1838 and published the first volume in 1854, expecting the project to take about ten years. Subsequent scholars finished it in 1961, with a supplement appearing in 1971. The completed dictionary runs to 33 volumes and around 330,000 headwords.
Why was Jacob Grimm banished from the Kingdom of Hanover?
In 1837, Jacob Grimm was dismissed from his professorship at the University of Göttingen and banished from the Kingdom of Hanover after he joined six other academics, known as the Göttingen Seven, in signing a protest against the King of Hanover's abolition of the liberal constitution.
What was Jacob Grimm's relationship with the Danish philologist Rasmus Rask?
Jacob Grimm drew heavily on Rasmus Christian Rask's work, particularly for the Icelandic and Old English material in his German Grammar. Grimm acknowledged Rask's essay on Icelandic in his first edition. A later bitterness developed between them after Rask refused to engage with Grimm's views when they conflicted with his own.
When did Jacob Grimm die and what was he working on at the time?
Jacob Grimm died on the 20th of September 1863, in Berlin, at the age of 78. He was still working on the Deutsches Wörterbuch, the dictionary he and his brother had begun in 1838.