The Brothers Grimm

By maba8b8

  • Jakob Grimm was born

  • Wilhelm Grimm was born

  • Both brothers attend a school in Kassel

  • The brothers veer away from studying law

  • Jakob goes to Paris to do scientific work

  • Jakob receives a task from the Elector of Kassel

  • Wilhelm begins work as a librarian in Kassel

  • Jakob is sent to the Congress of Vienna

  • Jakob leaves his position and joins his brother

  • Wilhelm gets married

  • Both brothers leave the Library of Kassel

  • Jakob becomes a professor at Göttengen University

  • Wilhelm receives a junior librarian position

  • Wilhelm becomes a full time professor

  • Both brothers protest the new king of Hanover

  • Both brothers were elected to the Berlin Academy of Sciences and granted the right to lecture at Berlin University

  • Wilhelm dies

  • Jakob dies