He also has a younger brother named william green, who is also a linguist. The two brothers are the founders of German linguistics. The collection of German Children's and Family's Fairy Tales, which they collected and edited, is famous all over the world, commonly known as Grimm's Fairy Tales, and is a valuable asset in the world's children's literature.
the brothers grimm were born in hanau on the Rhine, and their father was a small official. Their youth was spent during Napoleon's occupation of Germany. At that time, Germany was oppressed by foreign aggression and powerful feudal forces. After graduating from college, they buried themselves in the study of history. Inspired by the collection of folk songs "Children's Strange Horn" co-edited by German romantic writers Arnim and Bucangtano, they began to collect and sort out folk fairy tales and ancient legends in 186, and in 1814, 1815 and 1822, they successively published three volumes of "Fairy Tales of German Children and Families".
after Napoleon's defeat in p>1814, the reactionary forces in European countries rose again, and the division of Germany was still very serious. This gives the brothers Grimm confidence that politics must be reformed. In 1837, seven famous university professors, including the Brothers Grimm, lost their professorship in protest against the Duke of Hanover's violation of his constitutional promise. During this period, they tried to combine the study of historical heritage with the people's demands for freedom, democracy and unity. They studied German language, compiled German Grammar, German Language History and the unfinished German Dictionary, which initiated the study of Germanic linguistics and proved that the German nation is a unified nation.
in p>1859, my younger brother william green died, and in 1863, jacob green died.