 jacob ludwig carl grimm (4 january 1785&nbsp;â 20 september 1863) was a german philologist, jurist and mythologist. he is best known as the discoverer of grimm's law (linguistics), the author (with his brother wilhelm) of the monumental deutsches wÃ¶rterbuch, the author of deutsche mythologie and, more popularly, as one of the brothers grimm, as the editor of grimm's fairy tales. ==life and books== jacob grimm was born in hanau, in hesse-kassel (or hesse-cassel). his father, who was a lawyer, died while he was a child, and his mother was left with very small means; but her sister, who was lady of the chamber to the landgravine of hesse, helped to support and educate her numerous family. jacob, with his younger brother wilhelm (born on 24 february 1786), was sent in 1798 to the public school at kassel. in 1802 he proceeded to the university of marburg, where he studied law, a profession for which he had been destined by his father. his brother joined him at marburg a year later, having just recovered from a long and severe illness, and likewise began the study of law. up to this time jacob grimm had been actuated only by a general thirst for knowledge and his energies had not found any aim beyond the practical one of making himself a position in life. the first definite impulse came from the lectures of friedrich karl von savigny, the celebrated investigator of roman law, who, as wilhelm grimm himself 
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