Some of these stories are famous, few more so than that the story of Rapunzel.īut what might have been the story and the anthropological elements which lay behind the true story of Rapunzel? Rapunzel illustrated by Arthur Rackham The Origins of Rapunzelįirst, let us look at the story of Rapunzel itself. That all changed once they began printing these stories, ones like Hansel and Gretel known to all modern school children from the 1810s onwards. Many of these stories had been transmitted throughout Germany and other areas for hundreds, and sometimes even thousands of years, but until the Grimms recorded them and published them, these stories had remained unavailable in print.
Jacob Ludwig Grimm and Wilhelm Carl Grimm were German academics from the state of Hesse or Hessen in the late eighteenth and early-to-mid-nineteenth century, who are famous for collecting ancient folklore tales and stories from around Germany and adjoining areas. There are a great many tales that have been disseminated down into popular culture, which were produced by the Brothers Grimm or the Grimm Brothers, as they are variously known. Jacob died there on September 20, 1863.Last updated on December 17th, 2022 at 08:35 pm Wilhelm Grimm died on December 16, 1859, in Berlin, Germany. They also worked for the government and as university professors and librarians. Eventually it contained more than 200 tales.Īside from collecting folktales, the Grimm brothers wrote books about the German language. The Grimms added to the collection for many years. Today the collection is commonly known as Grimm’s Fairy Tales. It was called Children’s and Household Tales. The first volume of the tales was published in 1812. Other times they combined several versions of a story into one. Sometimes they put their own religious, political, or moral views into the tales. The Grimms sometimes changed the tales they heard. The friend never used the tales, so the Grimms decided to publish them. The brothers wrote down tales that they heard storytellers tell out loud. The friend wanted to publish a collection of tales. While in their 20s they began collecting folktales for a friend. Wilhelm Carl was born in Hanau on February 24, 1786. Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm was born on January 4, 1785, in the German village of Hanau. The tales include such classics as “Snow White,” “Rumpelstiltskin,” “Rapunzel,” “Cinderella,” and “Little Red Riding Hood.”
They put together a famous book of folktales that has been published in at least 70 languages.
The German brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm collected some of the Western world’s most popular stories.
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