The Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, were German academics, linguists, cultural researchers, and authors who together collected and published folklore. They are among the most well-known storytellers of German folk tales, popularizing stories such as "Cinderella", "The Frog Prince", "Hansel and Gretel", "Rapunzel", "Rumpelstiltskin", and "Snow White". Their first collection of folk tales, Children's and Household Tales, was published in 1812. The brothers spent their formative years first in the German town of Hanau and then in Steinau. Their father's death in 1796, when Jacob was eleven and Wilhelm ten, caused great poverty for the family and affected the brothers for many years. They both attended the University of Marburg where historian and jurist Friedrich von Savigny spurred their interest in philology and Germanic studies—a field in which they are now considered pioneers—and at the same time developed a curiosity for folklore, which grew into a lifelong dedication to collecting German folk tales. Wikipedia [ - ]

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