The Brothers Grimm in Göttingen
In 1829, Jacob Grimm accepted the call for a professor position at the University of Göttingen. After receiving the promise that his brother Wilhelm would be offered a job at the university library, the two men left Kassel and, together with Wilhelm's wife Dorothea and their first child, moved into an apartment in Göttingen's splendid and sumptuous Goetheallee. Jacob Grimm was appointed Head Librarian at the University Library Göttingen; in addition, he was a professor of philosophy and was elected as member of the University senate. Likewise, Wilhelm received a call as associate professor in 1831 followed by the appointment to full professor in 1835. 
In addition to their teaching activities and their work at the library, the two brothers completed a large number of important publications in Göttingen. In 1837, Jacob published two more volumes of ‘German Grammar'. In 1834, he completed ‘Reinhart (Reineke) Fuchs', a book he had started in 1811. A work on ‘German Mythology' followed in 1835. Almost single-handedly, Wilhem published the third edition of the fairy tales in 1837.
For a letter of protest against a breach of the constitution by the King of Hannover, Ernst August 1st, the two brothers, along with five other professors (the 'Göttingen Seven': Wilhelm Eduard Albrecht, Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann, Heinrich Georg August Ewald, Georg Gottfried Gervinus, Wilhelm Eduard Weber) were dismissed and Jacob Grimm was even expelled from the country. He found refuge with his brother Ludwig Emil in Kassel. In October 1838, Wilhelm Grimm also returned to Kassel with his family.
Vestiges of the Brothers Grimm in Göttingen
Commemorative plaque for Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Goetheallee 6.
From 1829 to 1837, the Brothers Grimm lived in a house owned by commissioner Friedrich Grätzel. The lecture hall where the brothers gave lectures was located on the ground floor. The commemorative plaque was mounted on this building in 1874 and again on the replacement structure in 1994.
Commemorative plaque for the Göttingen Seven at the university assembly hall, Wilhelmsplatz
Square of the Göttingen Seven on the campus of the Georg-August University, named in 1987 on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the expulsion of the so-called ‘Göttingen Seven'.
Brothers Grimm memorial stone:
Monument representing the fairy tale ‘Little Brother and Little Sister', erected in 1959 on the corner of Brüder-Grimm-Allee/Hainbundstraße; design by Hermann Scheuernstuhl.
Brothers Grimm Allee
Brothers Grimm School, Robert-Koch-Straße
Elementary school inaugurated in 1953; in the lobby, there are metal sculptures from the ‘Fairy Tales'.
Work Centre ‘German Dictionary', Papendiek 14
Revised edition of letters D through F by the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Encyclopaedia of Fairy Tales, Friedländer Weg 2
Publication of the concise dictionary of historical and comparative narrative research by the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Plesse Castle, Bovenden-Eddigehausen
Plesse Castle is known as the ‘jewel of the Leine valley'. It is one of the best researched castles in Germany and object of many poetic verses. In the first publication of ‘German Sagas' by the Brothers Grimm, there are two Plesse sagas (The Swan Rings of Plesse / The quiet People of Plesse).
Institutions:
Work Centre ‘German Dictionary', Papendiek 14
Revised edition of letters D through F by the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/10177.html
Encyclopaedia of Fairy Tales, Friedländer Weg 2
Publication of the concise dictionary of historical and comparative narrative research by the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/10179.html
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Founded in 1734, the Georg-August-Universität whose prestige is enhanced by 44 Nobel laureates is a comprehensive university offering 130 study programmes to 24,000 students.
http://www.uni-goettingen.de
