Brothers Grimm

The Brothers Grimm - Jacob and Wilhelm - are the central figures in the formation of the German fairy-tale tradition as it is now known. Born in Hanau in the late eighteenth century, they were trained as jurists but became foundational scholars of language, folklore, and mythology. Their Kinder- und Hausmärchen, first published in 1812–15 and expanded across multiple editions, is not simply a collection of stories but a defining cultural artefact of German Romanticism.