Grimm, WILHELM KARL

Grimm, WILHELM KARL, brother of the preceding, was born at Hanau, February 24, 1786. Great part of his life has already been told in that of his brother. He was his companion in study at the Lyceum of Cassel, the university of Marburg, and again at Göttingen, where in 1830 he was appointed under-librarian and supernumerary professor of Philosophy. He joined his brother in the protest against the king of Hanover, shared his exile, and also his call to Berlin. There they laboured together, and were commonly known as the Brothers Grimm. Under that name also they have a certain immortality in the affections of the children of the civilised world. Wilhelm died 16th December 1859. His earliest independent work was a German translation of the Danish Kæmpe-Viscr (1811-13). He edited many old German texts, and collaborated with his brother Jakob in several of his works. His own most important book is Die deutsche Heldensage (1829; 2d ed. 1867). His Kleinere Schriften, ed. by Hinrichs, fill 4 vols. (1881-86), and contain an autobiography.