WRITER

Jacob Grimm

1785 - 1863

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Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm (4 January 1785 – 20 September 1863), also known as Ludwig Karl, was a German author, linguist, philologist, jurist, and folklorist. He formulated Grimm's law of linguistics, and was the co-author of the Deutsches Wörterbuch, the author of Deutsche Mythologie, and the editor of Grimms' Fairy Tales. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacob Grimm has received more than 909,078 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Jacob Grimm is the 239th most popular writer (up from 243rd in 2019), the 194th most popular biography from Germany (up from 197th in 2019) and the 15th most popular German Writer.

Jacob Grimm is most famous for his work with his brother Wilhelm on the Grimm's Fairy Tales.

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  • 910k

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  • 71.59

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  • 61

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Little Red Riding Hood
1945
Grimms' Fairy Tales
1800
Fairy tales
1800
Hansel and Gretel
When they are left in the woods by their parents, two children find their way home despite an encounter with a wicked witch.
1944
Deutsche mythologie
Germanic peoples
Publisher's description: This series is the most exhaustive compendium of German and Norse mythology and a milestone in the study of comparative mythology and religion. Indispensable for students and scholars of folklore, cultural history, and literature, this work remains the definitive basis for further research into the field.
1835
Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten
1922

Page views of Jacob Grimms by language

Over the past year Jacob Grimm has had the most page views in the with 112,032 views, followed by German (70,314), and Spanish (23,052). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Tamil (237.72%), Occitan (76.58%), and Wu Chinese (75.66%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jacob Grimm ranks 239 out of 7,302. Before him are Chinghiz Aitmatov, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Jaroslav Hašek, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frédéric Mistral, and Isabel Allende. After him are Nikos Kazantzakis, Fuzûlî, Robert Musil, John Milton, Saadi Shirazi, and Halldór Laxness.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1785, Jacob Grimm ranks 3. Before him are Louis XVII of France, and Mahmud II. After him are Karl Drais, Alessandro Manzoni, Bettina von Arnim, Lin Zexu, Claude-Louis Navier, Thomas De Quincey, Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Pierre Louis Dulong, and John James Audubon. Among people deceased in 1863, Jacob Grimm ranks 2. Before him is Eugène Delacroix. After him are Frederick VII of Denmark, William Makepeace Thackeray, Sa'id of Egypt, Alfred de Vigny, Horace Vernet, Franz Xaver Gruber, Solomon Northup, Jakob Steiner, Stonewall Jackson, and Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Jacob Grimm ranks 194 out of 7,253. Before him are Augustus III of Poland (1696), Anne of Cleves (1515), Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor (955), Emil Fischer (1852), Oswald Spengler (1880), and Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1282). After him are Eduard Buchner (1860), Gottlob Frege (1848), Hermann von Helmholtz (1821), Max Ernst (1891), Wilhelm Dilthey (1833), and Wilhelm, German Crown Prince (1882).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Jacob Grimm ranks 15. Before him are Charles Bukowski (1920), Novalis (1772), Heinrich Böll (1917), Eckhart Tolle (1948), Friedrich Hölderlin (1770), and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729). After him are Nelly Sachs (1891), Paul Heyse (1830), Heinrich von Kleist (1777), Ernst Jünger (1895), Michael Ende (1929), and Friedrich Schlegel (1772).

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