Biography of the World's Greatest Linguists Jacob GrimmAbout the biography of Jacob Grimm one of the greatest linguists in history and the world.THE WORLD'S GREATEST LINGUISTS
JACOB GRIMM (1785-1863)
He formulated the philological law known as Grimm's Law, which describes "the first Germanic consonant shift" in Indo-European languages. Besides his work in comparative philology and the many languages he mastered, Grimm collected with his brother, Wilhelm, the world-famous Grimm's Fairy Tales (1812) and planned and inaugurated the great German Dictionary (1852). The dictionary was finally completed by other scholars in 1960--supposedly the world's longest literary gestation. | ||
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