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Jacob Grimm

German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist1785 to 1863

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Taught5

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a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Benedict Waldeck
born 1802
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Georg Schambach
born 1811
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Karl Weinhold
born 1823
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Clemens Friedrich Meyer
born 1824
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Leo Meyer
born 1830

Education and career3

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from 1841
Frederick William University Berlin
worked
undated
University of Marburg
studied
undated
University of Göttingen
worked

At a glance

known as: jurist, lexicographer, anthropologist, linguist, philologist, mythologist, librarian, translator, law librarian, children's writer, university teacher, literary scholar, legal historian, secretary of legation, poet lawyer, mythographer, writer, politician, collector of fairy tales, historian
awards: Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, 1853, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Knight of the Legion of Honour, 1841
member of: Frankfurt National Assembly, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Academy of Science for Public Utility, Society of Serbian Letters, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 1847 to 1863, Brothers Grimm
notable works: Deutsche Mythologie, Grimms' fairy tales
Wikipedia: in 82 languages

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identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaJacob Grimm
stated by WikidataWikidataQ6701
stated by WikidataVIAF31997136
stated by WikidataGND118542257
stated by WikidataIdRef026903458
stated by WikidataISNI0000000121003890

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@misc{academicancestry_Q6701,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Jacob Grimm: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q6701},
  note = {read on 2026-10-22}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 22). Jacob Grimm: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-22]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q6701