Jacob Grimm

German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785-1863)

• Born: 1785-01-01 1785-01-04 (Henau Hanau) (reason for preferred rank: most precise value)
• Died: 1863-01-01 1863-09-20 (Berlin) (reason for preferred rank: most precise value)
• Country of citizenship: Electorate of Hesse; Kingdom of Prussia
• Occupation: anthropologist; children's writer; collector of fairy tales; jurist; law librarian; legal historian; lexicographer; librarian; linguist; literary scholar; mythographer; mythologist; philologist; poet lawyer; politician; secretary of legation; translator; university teacher; writer
• Member of: Academy of Science for Public Utility; American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities; German National Assembly 1848/49; Göttingen Academy of Sciences; Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences; Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences; Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities; Russian Academy of Sciences; Society of Serbian Letters
• Participant in: Congress of Vienna
• Position held: Member of the Frankfurt Parliament
• Employer: Frederick William University (since: 1841-01-01); University of Göttingen
• Educated at: University of Marburg
• VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/31997136
• ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000121003890
• WorldCat Identities ID: https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n78095680; https://worldcat.org/identities/viaf-294978436
• Library of Congress authority ID: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095680