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Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm

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Noun

1. grimm, jakob grimm, jakob ludwig karl grimm

the older of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories; also author of Grimm's law describing consonant changes in Germanic languages (1785-1863)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm

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German philologist and folklorist who formulated Grimm's Law (1822), the basis for much of modern comparative linguistics. With his brother Wilhelm Karl (1786-1859) he collected Germanic folk tales and published them as Grimm's Fairy Tales (1812-1815).

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