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WILHELM CARL GRIMM (1786-1859)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 602 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GRIMM (1786-1859)  . For the See also:chief events in the See also:life of Wilhelm See also:Grimm see See also:article on See also:Jacob Grimm above . As Jacob himself said in his celebrated address to the See also:Berlin See also:Academy on the See also:death of his See also:brother, the whole of their lives were passed together . In their schooldays they had one See also:bed and one table in See also:common, as students they had two beds and two tables in the same See also:room, and they always lived under one roof, and had their books and See also:property in common . Nor did Wilhelm's See also:marriage in any way disturb their See also:harmony . As Cleasby said (" Life of Cleasby," prefixed to his Icelandic See also:Dictionary, p . Ixix.), " they both live in the same See also:house, and in such harmony and community that one might almost imagine the See also:children were common property." Wilhelm's See also:character was a See also:complete contrast to that of his brother . As a boy he was strong and healthy, but as he See also:grew up he was attacked by a See also:long and severe illness, which See also:left him weak all his life . His was a less comprehensive and energetic mind than that of his brother, and he had less of the spirit of investigation, preferring to confine himself to some limited and definitely bounded See also:field of See also:work; he utilized everything that See also:bore directly on his own studies, and ignored the See also:rest . These studies were almost always of a See also:literary nature . It is characteristic of his more aesthetic nature that he took See also:great delight in See also:music, for which his brother had but a moderate liking, and had a remarkable See also:gift of See also:story-telling . Cleasby, in the See also:account of his visit to the See also:brothers, quoted above, tells that " Wilhelm read a sort of See also:farce written in the See also:Frankfort See also:dialect, depicting the ` malheurs ' of a See also:rich Frankfort tradesman on a See also:holiday jaunt on See also:Sunday .

It was very droll, and he read it admirably." Cleasby describes him as " an uncommonly animated, jovial See also:

fellow." He was, accordingly, much sought in society, which he frequented much more than his brother . His first work was a spirited See also:translation of the Danish Kcmpeviser, Altdanische Heldenlieder, published in 1811–1813, which made his name at first more widely known than that of his brother . The most important of his See also:text See also:editions are—Ruolandslied (See also:Gottingen, 1838) ; Konrad von Wiirzburg's Goldene Schmiede (Berlin, 1840) ; See also:Grave Ruodolf (Gottingen, 1844, 2nd ed.); Athis and Prophilias (Berlin, 1846) ; Altdeutsche Gespriche (Berlin, 1851) ; See also:Freidank (Gottingen, 1860, 2nd ed.) . Of his other See also:works the most important is Deutsche Heldensage (Berlin, 1868, 2nd ed.) . His Deutsche Runen (Gottingen, 1821) has now only an See also:historical See also:interest . (H .

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