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, we may ...

Their version of “Cinderella” or “Rapunzel” could be disturbing. But turning Germany into a unified nation, they believed, meant unearthing its authentic culture.

In “The Brothers Grimm,” Ann Schmiesing tells the tale behind the tales. Linguists remember Jacob, the elder brother, for Grimm’s Law, his detection of patterns in the ways that sounds shift ...

A new biography, “The Brothers Grimm” by Ann Schmiesing, explores the lives of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and how they created their famed fairy tales.

The Brothers Grimm Did Much More Than Tell Fairy Tales A recent discovery in a Polish library of 27 books that were thought to have been lost sheds light on the breadth of the German scholars’ work ...

The Brothers Grimm Did Much More Than Tell Fairy Tales. A recent discovery in a Polish library of 27 books that were thought to have been lost sheds light on the breadth of the German scholars’ work ...

Though the Brothers Grimm worked together in Kassel, Göttingen, and even Savigny for a beat, they spent the longest, most illustrious period of their careers as cultural anthropologists in Berlin.

Scientists have discovered 27 new original works by the Brothers Grimm that have thought to have been lost in WWII. The books contain handwritten notes that could reveal how the brothers chose themes.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — What do you get when you combine the Brothers Grimm fairy tales "Cinderella," "Jack and the Beanstalk," "Rapunzel" and "Little Red Riding Hood," with a dash of "Snow ...

The Brothers Grimm are best known for the German folk tales they collected and preserved in writing: classic stories about Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel and Rapunzel. They’re so well known for these ...