GRIMM, Jakob Ludwig, German philO1O gist: b. Hanau, Hesse-Cassel, 4 Jan. 1785; d. Berlin, 20 Sept 1863. He studied philology and law at Marburg, and later studied many sub jects at Paris under Savigny. He returned to Germany in 1805 and for a time was employed in the office of the Minister of War at. Cassel. In 1806 he became librarian to Jerome Bona parte, king of Westphalia; and from 1816 to 1829 occupied the post of second. librarian at Cassel. From 1830 to 1837 he resided at Gottin gen as professor and librarian, lecturing on the German language, literature and legal antiquil ties. Having, with six other professors, re sisted the unconstitutional encroachments of the king of Hanover, he was banished, and after his retirement to Cassel, he was, in 1841; called to Berlin as a professor and member of the Academy of Sciences. He sat in the Naz tional Assembly of 1848, and in that of Gotha in 1849. From that time till his death, he oci cupied himself only with his various publica tions. He wrote on German mythologor, Gert; man legal antiquities, the history of the German language, and published old German poems, ett: His two greatest works; both unfinished, are his 'Deutsche Grammatik' (1819-37), arid his Worterbuch) commenced in 1852, in conjunction with his brother Wilhelm (q.v.), and gradually completed by eminent
scholars. He also published in company with his brother, the 'Kinder und Hausmiirchen,' one of the most popular collections of juvenile fairy tales. His 'Deutsche Rechtsaltertiimer) (1828; 4th ed. 1899); and 'Deutsche Mytho logic' (1835), are authoritative on medieval traditions, literatures and social customs. Other important works by him are 'Geschichte der deutschen
(1848; 4th ed., 1880); `Ueber den Urspung der Sprach& (1851) ; 'Gammer Grethel's Fairy Tales' (1862) ;