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Wilhelm Grimm

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Wilhelm Carl Grimm was a German writer, philologist and anthropologist. He was the younger brother of Jacob Grimm, and together they formed the literary duo known as the Brothers Grimm. He was born in 1786 and died in 1859. He was born in Hanau in Hesse-Kassel and began studying law at the University of Marburg in 1803, one year after his brother Jacob. The brothers spent their whole lives close together, and in 1825 he married Henriette Dorothea Wild, known as Dortchen.

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1786 1
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1859 1
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1. Wikipedia: Wilhelm Grimm
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    was a German writer, philologist and anthropologist
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    Wilhelm Carl Grimm (also Karl; 24 February 1786
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    16 December 1859) was a German writer, philologist and anthropologist. He was the younger brother of Jacob Grimm, of the literary duo the Brothers Grimm.
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Grimms' Fairy Tales (Wikipedia)
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Author: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
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