Once upon a time, a family by the name of Grimm carried on a life that was anything but ... Jacob and Wilhelm, the Brothers Grimm, experienced the kind of sharp reversal of fortune characteristic ...

“The significance of Grimm’s law to the humanities has been compared to the significance of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species to the life sciences,” Schmiesing said. Shortly after the completion of ...

THE BROTHERS GRIMM: A Biography. By Amy Schmiesing. Yale University Press. 360 pages. $35. If not for German academics Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and their devotion to popularizing fairy tales ...