Claim: In 1858 Ernst Förstemann was encouraged to publish his completed work from a competition hosted by Jacob Grimm, who was a German philologist known for discovering Grimm's law of linguistics.
Evidence: Förstemann was also the only contestant in a competition hosted by Jacob Grimm that required a list of names that were in use in Germany until the year of 1100. Although he only submitted a draft, he won the prize and was encouraged by Grimm to publish the completed work in 1858. He is known as the discoverer of Grimm's law of linguistics, the co-author of the monumental Deutsches Wörterbuch, the author of Deutsche Mythologie, and the editor of Grimm's Fairy Tales.