Editing Wilhelm Grimm

{{Short description|German author (1786–1859)}}
{{Infobox writer
| name             = Wilhelm Grimm
| birth_name       = Wilhelm Carl Grimm
| image            = File:Wilhelm Grimm Daguerreotype.jpg
| caption          = Grimm in 1847
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1786|02|24|df=yes}}
| birth_place      = [[Hanau]], [[Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel]], Holy Roman Empire
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1859|12|16|1786|02|24|df=yes}}
| death_place      = [[Berlin]], [[Kingdom of Prussia]], German Confederation
| alma_mater       = [[University of Marburg]]
| children         = [[Herman Grimm]]
| relatives        = [[Jacob Grimm]] (brother)<br/>[[Ludwig Emil Grimm]] (brother)<br/>[[Gisela von Arnim]] (daughter-in-law)<br/>[[Ludwig Hassenpflug]] (brother-in-law)
| parents          = [[Philipp Grimm]] (father)<br>[[Dorothea Grimm]] (mother)
}}

'''Wilhelm Carl Grimm''' (also '''Karl''';{{efn|The [[Neue Deutsche Biographie]] records their names as
"Grimm, Jacob Ludwig Carl"<ref name="dnb118542257">[http://d-nb.info/gnd/118542257 Deutsche National Bibliothek], citing [[Neue Deutsche Biographie]].</ref> and "Grimm, Wilhelm Carl".<ref name="dnb118542265">[http://d-nb.info/gnd/118542265 Deutsche National Bibliothek], citing [[Neue Deutsche Biographie]], {{ill|Deutsches Biographisches Archiv|de}} and [[National Union Catalog|The National Union Catalog Pre-1956 Imprints]].</ref> The {{ill|Deutsches Biographisches Archiv|de}} records Wilhelm's name as "Grimm, Wilhelm Karl".<ref name="dnb118542265"/> The [[Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie]] gives the names as "Grimm: Jacob (Ludwig Karl)"<ref name="ADB678">{{Cite ADB|9|678|688|Grimm, Jacob (Ludwig Karl)|[[Wilhelm Scherer]]|ADB:Grimm, Jakob}}</ref> and "Grimm: Wilhelm (Karl)".<ref name="ADB690">{{Cite ADB|9|690|695|Grimm, Wilhelm (Karl)|[[Wilhelm Scherer]]|ADB:Grimm, Wilhelm}}</ref> [[National Union Catalog|The National Union Catalog Pre-1956 Imprints]] also gives Wilhelm's name as "Grimm, Wilhelm Karl".<ref name="dnb118542265"/>}} 24 February 1786{{snd}}16 December 1859) was a German author, [[philology|philologist]] and [[anthropology|anthropologist]]. He was the younger brother of [[Jacob Grimm]], of the literary duo the [[Brothers Grimm]].

==Life and work==
Wilhelm was born in February 1786 in [[Hanau]], in [[Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel|Hesse-Kassel]].  In 1803, he started studying [[law]] at the [[University of Marburg]], one year after his brother Jacob started there. The two brothers spent their entire lives close together. In their school days, they had one bed and one table in common; as students, they had two beds and two tables in the same room. They always lived under one roof and had their books and property in common.<ref name="eb1911">{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Grimm, Wilhelm Carl|volume=12|page=602|first=Henry|last=Sweet|author-link=Henry Sweet}}</ref>
[[File:Grimm-tomb.JPG|thumb|The Grimms' tomb in Berlin]]
In 1825, 39-year-old Wilhelm married pharmacist's daughter [[Henriette Dorothea Wild]], also known as Dortchen.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales – #FolkloreThursday |date=6 April 2017 |url=https://folklorethursday.com/creative-corner/secret-history-grimm-fairy-tales/ |access-date=2022-10-11 |language=en-GB}}</ref> Wilhelm's marriage did not change the harmony of the brothers.<ref name="eb1911"/> [[Richard Cleasby]] visited the brothers and observed, "they both live in the same house, and in such harmony and community that one might almost imagine the children were common property."<ref name="eb1911"/><ref>"Life of Cleasby," prefixed to his ''Icelandic Dictionary'', p. lxix.</ref>
[[File:Wilhelm Grimm.png|250px|thumb|Undated engraving of Grimm]]
Wilhelm's character was a complete contrast to that of his brother. As a boy, he was strong and healthy, but while growing up he suffered a long and severe illness which left him weak the rest of his life. He had a less comprehensive and energetic mind than his brother, and he had less of the spirit of investigation, preferring to confine himself to some limited and definitely bounded field of work. He utilized everything that bore directly on his own studies and ignored the rest. These studies were almost always of a literary nature.<ref name="eb1911"/>

Wilhelm took great delight in music, for which his brother had but a moderate liking, and he had a remarkable gift of story-telling. Cleasby relates that "Wilhelm read a sort of farce written in the Frankfort dialect, depicting the 'malheurs' of a rich Frankfort tradesman on a holiday jaunt on Sunday. It was very droll, and he read it admirably." Cleasby describes him as "an uncommonly animated, jovial fellow." He was, accordingly, much sought in society, which he frequented much more than his brother.<ref name="eb1911"/>

A collection of [[fairy tale]]s was first published in 1812 by the Grimm brothers, known in English as [[Grimms' Fairy Tales]].

From 1837 to 1841, the Grimm brothers joined five of their colleague professors at the [[University of Göttingen]] to form a group known as the ''[[Göttinger Sieben]]'' (''The Göttingen Seven''). They protested against [[Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover]], whom they accused of violating the [[constitution]]. All seven were fired by the [[monarch|king]].

Wilhelm Grimm died in [[Berlin]] of an infection at the age of 73 on 16 December 1859.

==Children==
Wilhelm and Henriette had four children together:
* Jacob (3 April 1826{{snd}}15 December 1826)
* [[Herman Grimm|Herman Friedrich]] (6 January 1828{{snd}}16 June 1901), also a noted writer
* Rudolf Georg (31 March 1830{{snd}}13 November 1889)
* Barbara Auguste Luise Pauline Marie (21 August 1832{{snd}}9 February 1919)

==Notes==
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==References==
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== External links ==
{{Commons category|Wilhelm Grimm}}
{{Wikisource|Author:Wilhelm Carl Grimm|Wilhelm Grimm}}
* {{StandardEbooks|Standard Ebooks URL=https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jacob-grimm_wilhelm-grimm|Display Name = the Brothers Grimm}}
* [http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm.html Grimm Brothers' Home Page]
* {{Gutenberg author | id=972}}
* {{FadedPage|id=Grimm, Wilhelm Carl|name=Wilhelm Carl Grimm|author=yes}}
* {{Internet Archive author |search=("Grimm, Wilhelm" OR "Wilhelm Grimm")}}
* {{Librivox author |id=1569}}
* [http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms.html Household Tales by the Brothers Grimm, translated by Margaret Hunt]  (This site is the only one to feature all of the Grimms' notes translated in English along with the tales from Hunt's original edition.  Andrew Lang's introduction is also included.)
* {{DNB-Portal|118542265}}
* {{DDB|Person|118542265}}
* {{HessBib PPN|127898867}}

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