Brothers Grimm

BROTHERS GRIMM
 
The Brothers Grimm,  Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Carl Grimm (1786–1859), were German academics, philologists, cultural researchers, lexicographers, and authors who together collected and published folklore during the 19th century.  They were among the first and best-known collectors of German and European folk tales, and popularized traditional oral tale types such as “Cinderella”, “The Frog Prince”, “The Goose-Girl”, “Hansel and Gretel”, “Rapunzel”, “Beauty and the Beast”, “Little Red Riding Hood”, “The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats”, “The Three Little Pigs”, “Rumpelstiltskin”, “Sleeping Beauty”, and “Snow White”.  Their classic collection, Children’s and Household Tales, was published in two volumes — the first in 1812 and the second in 1815.  Many of the Grimms’ folk tales have enjoyed enduring popularity.  The tales are available in more than 100 languages and have been adapted by filmmakers including Lotte Reiniger and Walt Disney, with films such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Sleeping Beauty.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 
We have been bombarded with important anniversaries this year.  Though I purposely did not research all of these anniversaries and undoubtedly missed plenty of them for this post (I have been adding them as I think about new ones, however), I know about several others:  A long-time favorite food that I still enjoy, Sun Maid Raisins was started in 1912; I lived for nearly 7 years in Jackson County, MS, which was founded in 1812; and the first book of fairy tales and folk stories that were assembled by the Brothers Grimm was published in 1812.  The “unsinkable” ship Titanic went down in 1912.  The first Whitman’s Sampler – the standard by which all mixed chocolate boxes should be judged IMHO (though not since their acquisition by Russell Stover in 1993 – and yes, I do think that Godiva is over-rated) – came out in 1912.  The time-traveling sequences in one of my favorite romance movies, Somewhere in Time (starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour) were set in 1912.  As I noted in the UARB post on Trillion, one of the best known albums by Rush is called 2112; this album placed second on a readers’ poll by Rolling Stone on “Your Favorite Prog Rock Albums of All Time”.  My alma mater, North Carolina State University celebrated its 125th anniversary this year. 
 
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Last edited: March 22, 2021