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7 unusual facts about Jacob Grimm


Builders' rites

Grimm (Teutonic Mythology (1883–1884), (trans. Stalleybrass).

Jacob Grimm

To this end he laboriously collected scattered words and allusions found in classical lliterature, and endeavoured to determine the relationship between the German language and those of the Getae, Thracians, Scythians, and many other nations whose languages were at the time known only through doubtfully identified, often extremely corrupted remains preserved by Greek and Latin authors.

Ten Kate in Holland had afterwards (after Grimm's book?) made valuable contributions to the history and comparison of Germanic languages.

Jean-Jacques Boisard

For his part, Jacob Grimm, who was a close friend, considered Boisard's fables as natural and diverse, but sometimes naïve.

Lübeck-Büchen Railway Company

Consent was given three days before the beginning of the German-nationalist public song festival in Lübeck, and three months before the start of the Germanists’ day (Germanistentag) in Lübeck (27–30 September 1847), chaired by Jacob Grimm, following the first Germanists’ day meeting in the previous year in Frankfurt am Main.

Sonargöltr

As Jacob Grimm pointed out, the serving of a boar's head at banquets and particularly at Queen's College, Oxford may also be a reminiscence of the Yule boar-blót.

The Crowning of the Virtuous Hero

Jacob Grimm (then a legation secretary) played an instrumental part in gaining the return of the Rubens, which occurred in December 1815.



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