–first collection of fairy tales (86) – in Germany
Among their gems: Rumpelstiltskin, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel, Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, and the Frog Prince.
The Grimm brothers were actually German academics, and researchers in linguistics. The linguistic classic by the elder Grimm brother, Deutsche Grammatik (1822), develops linguistic breakthroughs by von Schlegel (1806) and Rask (1818) into “Grimm’s Law” of linguistics.