Editing Jacob Grimm (section)

===Later work===
[[File:Elisabet Ney - Bust of Jacob Grimm (1856-58).jpg|thumb|[[Jacob Grimm (sculpture)|Marble bust]] of Grimm by [[Elisabet Ney]], carved 1856–58 in Berlin]]
Grimm joined other academics, known as the [[Göttingen Seven]], who signed a protest against the [[Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover|King of Hanover]]'s abrogation of the liberal constitution which had been established some years before.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Nichols |first1=Stephen G. |title=Medievalism and the Modernist Temper |date=1996 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |page=143}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Andrews |first1=Charles McLean |title=The Historical Development of Modern Europe: From the Congress of Vienna to the Present Time, Volumes 1-2 |date=1898 |publisher=G. P. Putnam's sons |pages=265–266}}</ref> As a result, he was dismissed from his professorship and banished from the Kingdom of Hanover in 1837. He returned to Kassel with his brother, who had also signed the protest. They remained there until 1840 when they accepted King [[Frederick William IV]]'s invitation to move to the [[University of Berlin]], where they both received professorships and were elected members of the Academy of Sciences. Grimm was not under any obligation to lecture, and seldom did so; he spent his time working with his brother on their dictionary project. During their time in Kassel, he regularly attended the meetings of the academy and read papers on varied subjects, including [[Karl Konrad Friedrich Wilhelm Lachmann]], [[Friedrich Schiller]], old age, and the origin of language. He described his impressions of Italian and Scandinavian travel, interspersing more general observations with linguistic details.<ref name=EB1911/> He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1857.<ref name=AAAS>{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter G|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterG.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=9 September 2016}}</ref>

Grimm died in Berlin at the age of 78, working until the very end of his life. He describes his own work at the end of his autobiography:

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Nearly all my labours have been devoted, either directly or indirectly, to the investigation of our earlier language, poetry and laws. These studies may have appeared to many, and may still appear, useless; to me they have always seemed a noble and earnest task, definitely and inseparably connected with our common fatherland, and calculated to foster the love of it. My principle has always been in these investigations to under-value nothing, but to utilize the small for the illustration of the great, the popular tradition for the elucidation of the written monuments.<ref name=EB1911/>
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