Brothers Grimm

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/brothers-grimm

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. When was Brothers Grimm born?Jacob: January 4, 1785; Wilhelm: February 24, 1786
2. When did Brothers Grimm die?Jacob: September 20, 1863 (age 78); Wilhelm: December 16, 1859 (age 73)
3. Where was Brothers Grimm born?Hanau, Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel (now Germany)
4. What is the related topics?German Romanticism, Germanic philology, comparative mythology, oral tradition, lexicography, cultural history
5. Who were the Brothers Grimm and what did they do?Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were German brothers who collected and wrote down fairy tales like Cinderella and Snow White.
6. How many stories did they start with and how many did they end up with?They began with 86 stories and later added more, ending up with over 200.

Philology: The study of language in oral and written historical sources; a combination of literary criticism, history, and linguistics.
Oral Tradition: The transmission of cultural knowledge, stories, and customs from generation to generation by spoken word.
Romanticism: An artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement emphasizing emotion, imagination, individualism, and the glorification of the past and nature.