Grimm brothers

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  • Jacob Grimm is born

    Jacob Grimm is born.
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    Grimm brothers

  • Wilhelm Grimm is born a year later.

  • The Grimm family moves to Steinau, Germany

  • Jacob Grimm goes the University of Marburg to study law.

  • Brothers publish first volume of Childrens and Household Stories, a collection of eighty-six stories passed down through oral tradition. This is the beginnings of what we now know as Grimm’s Fairy Tales.

  • Brothers publish second volume of Childrens and Household Stories

    Household Stories

  • Jacob returns to work as a librarian

  • brothers publish a third volume of fairy tales

  • Wilhelm takes leading role of Children’s and Household Stories.

  • Wilhelm Grimm marries Henriette Dorothea Wild

  • Grimmb rothers publish Irish Fairy Tales

  • move to Gottingen to work as professors.

  • They begin work on a German Dictionary after loosing jobs

  • The brother’s get professorships at University of Berlin.

  • They continue to publish studies in German language.

  • Wilhelm retires as a professor.

  • Grimm brothers dictionary dont get past the letter G

  • Wilhelm Grimm dies

  • Jacob Grimm dies