Biographical milestones of the Brothers Grimm
Brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were born in Hanau in 1785 and 1786 and grew up in the nearby town of Steinau. They attended Gymnasium in Kassel and moved to Marburg to study law in 1802/1803. After completion of their studies, they returned to Kassel to work as librarians. From 1830 to 1837, they were professors at the University of Göttingen and they spent the last years of their lives in Berlin. Come visit the authentic places where the famous Brothers Grimm lived and worked.
Hanau is the birthplace of the multi-gifted learned scholars Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (1785/1786) and the starting point of the German Fairy Tale Route. Born at No. 1...
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The brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm lived as children in Steinau an der Strasse.The family of the world-renown German linguists and collectors of fairy tales had long...
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» I don't know, my friend, whether you were ever here yourself, but the location of Marburg and the surrounding area is certainly beautiful. Especially when you stand...
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»THE HAPPIEST YEARS ...«"The Kassel years were the happiest years in our life," wrote Jacob Grimm in 1860, and his brother Wilhelm agreed with him. Between 1798 and 1841...
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