It is hard to imagine American childhood without Walt Disney’s reworkings of Brothers Grimm stories such as “Snow White,” “Cinderella,” “Sleeping Beauty” and “Rapunzel.” It is impossible to imagine ...

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 ...

Ann Schmiesing’s The Brothers Grimm: A Biography aims to correct these “misconceptions”, fleshing out Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm as individuals with different temperaments and scholarly enthusiasms, as ...

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This week the story of an anxious hedgehog and a biography of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm captured critics’ attention. The Life of Herod the Great (HQ), the final unfinished novel by the late Zora Neale ...

German philologist, jurist, and mythologist. He is known as the discoverer of Grimm's law (linguistics), the co-author with his brother Wilhelm of the monumental Deutsches Wörterbuch, the author of ...

The world's most famous collection of children's stories began as an academic study for adults, when Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm collected German folklore in the 1800s. The brothers in later life. Jacob ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

In her Arts and SciencesHonors Program Distinguished Lecture, CU Boulder Professor Ann Schmiesing offers a detailed look at the famous fairy tales and their collectors Best known for their fairy tale ...

There are enough stories and characters in the German folk tales compiled by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the early 19th Century to fill at least 10 seasons of a TV series. Or five seasons of two shows, ...