INDEX
B
Blue Light, The, ref 1
Bremen Town-Musicians, The, ref 1
C
Cat and Mouse in Partnership, ref 1
Chanticleer and Partlet, ref 1
Cinderella, ref 1
Clever Elsie, ref 1
Clever Grethel, ref 1
Clever Hans, ref 1
D
Death of the Little Hen, The, ref 1
Doctor Knowall, ref 1
Dog and the Sparrow, The, ref 1
Donkey Cabbages, ref 1
E
Elves (and the Shoemaker), The, ref 1
F
Fisherman and His Wife, The, ref 1
Four Skilful Brothers, The, ref 1
Fox and the Cat, The, ref 1
Fox and the Horse, The, ref 1
Frederick and Catherine, ref 1
Frog-King, or Iron Henry, The, ref 1
Fundevogel, ref 1
G
Golden Bird, The, ref 1
Golden Goose, The, ref 1
Goose-Girl, The, ref 1
H
Hans in Luck, ref 1
Hänsel and Grethel, ref 1
I
Iron John, ref 1
J
Jorinda and Joringel, ref 1
K
King of the Golden Mountain, The, ref 1
King Thrushbeard, ref 1
L
Lady and the Lion, The, ref 1
Little Briar-Rose, ref 1
Little Peasant, The, ref 1
Little Red-Cap, ref 1
Little Red Riding Hood, ref 1
Little Snow-White, ref 1
M
Mother Holle, ref 1
Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage, The, ref 1
O
Old Man and His Grandson, The, ref 1
Old Sultan, ref 1
Our Lady’s Child, ref 1
P
Pack of Ragamuffins, The, ref 1
Pink, The, ref 1
Q
Queen Bee, The, ref 1
R
Rapunzel, ref 1
Raven, The, ref 1
Robber Bridegroom, The, ref 1
Rumpelstiltskin, ref 1
S
Seven Ravens, The, ref 1
Shoemaker, The, ref 1
Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces, The, ref 1
Singing, Soaring Lark, The, ref 1
Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, The, ref 1
Straw, the Coal, and the Bean, The, ref 1
Sweetheart Roland, ref 1
T
Three Languages, The, ref 1
Thumbling, ref 1
Tom Thumb, ref 1
Twelve Dancing Princesses, The, ref 1
Turnip, The, ref 1
V
W
Water of Life, The, ref 1
Wedding of Mrs. Fox, The, ref 1
White Snake, The, ref 1
Willow-Wren and the Bear, The, ref 1
Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, The, ref 1
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM
1785
4 January
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm is born in Hanau, Hesse-Kessel (now Germany), to Dorothea and Philipp Wilhelm Grimm, a lawyer
1786
24 February
Wilhelm Carl Grimm, who becomes Jacob’s collaborator, is born in Hanau
31 July
Robert Burns’s Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect is published by John Wilson, Kilmarnock
1787
Friedrich Schiller’s Don Carlos (Dom Karlos) is published by G. J. Goschen, Leipzig
1788
22 January
George Byron, Sixth Baron Byron is born
1789
14 July
Storming of the Bastille in Paris
December
William Blake writes, prints, and distributes Songs of Innocence, comprising nineteen poems
1790
14 March
Ludwig Emil Grimm, who later illustrates an edition of his brothers’ work, is born in Hanau
1 November
Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France is published by J. Dodsley, London
1791
Spring
Philipp Grimm moves his family to Steinau where he becomes a district magistrate
1792
4 August
Percy Bysshe Shelley is born
22 September
Newly elected National Convention abolishes the monarchy and officially declares France a republic
1793
21 January
Execution of Louis XVI
July
The Reign of Terror begins in France
16 October
Execution of Marie Antoinette
1794
July
Robespierre is executed and the Reign of Terror ends
December
William Blake publishes Songs of Innocence and Experience, by adding twenty-six poems to Songs of Innocence
1796
10 January
Philipp Wilhelm Grimm dies at the age of forty-four, leaving his wife to raise their six surviving children, of whom Jacob is the eldest at the age of eleven
Matthew Lewis’s The Monk is published anonymously
1797
30 August
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is born
Friedrich Hölderlin’s Hyperion, Volume I is published in Tübingen August Wilhelm Schlegel begins to publish his German translations of Shakespeare
1798
Jacob, age thirteen, and Wilhelm, twelve, move to Kassel to live with their aunt and begin formal schooling at the lyceum (Friedrichsgymnasium)
August Wilhelm Schlegel and his brother Friedrich launch the journal Athenaeum
Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge is published by A. & A. Arch, London
1799
1 November
Napoleon Bonaparte overthrows the Directory and becomes First Consul of France
Friedrich Hölderlin’s Hyperion, Volume II is published
1800
August
Novalis (Georg Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg) publishes Hymnen an die Nacht (Hymns to the Night) in the journal Athenaeum
Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s Die Bestimmung des Menschen (The Vocation of Man) is published by Vossische Buchhandlung, Berlin
1801
25 March
Novalis dies
2 April
The British navy defeats the Danish navy at the Battle of Copenhagen
1802
Jacob Grimm begins studying law at the University of Marburg
3 September
Winter
Walter Scott’s The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border is published by Thomas Cadell Jr. and Davies, London
1803
Wilhelm Grimm joins his brother at Marburg where both are influenced by their professor, Friedrich Karl von Savigny
1804
Professor von Savigny marries Kunigunde Brentano, the sister of Bettina von Arnim and Clemens Brentano
18 May
Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor of France
1805
Jacob visits Paris and stays with von Savigny, who is engaged in legal research
Clemens Brentano and his brother-in-law, Ludwig Achim von Arnim, release the first volume of Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Boy’s Magic Horn), a collection of German folk poems and songs published by Mohr & Zimmer, Heidelberg
Wilhelm completes his studies at Marburg and returns to Kassel with his mother
21 October
Horatio Nelson’s fleet defeats the combined fleets of France and Spain at the Battle of Trafalgar
2 December
Napol
eon defeats the combined Austrian and Russian armies at Austerlitz, which results in the breakup of the Holy Roman Empire
December
Jacob returns to Kassel from Paris
1806
September
Prussia declares war on France
14 October
Napoleon defeats the Prussians at Jena-Auerstedt
France occupies Kassel and dismantles the Holy Roman Empire
1807
G. W. F. Hegel’s Phänomenologie des Geistes (The Phenomenology of Spirit) is published by Joseph Anton Goebhardt, Bamberg and Würzburg
William Wordsworth’s Lyrical Poems is published by Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, London
7 December
The Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia is established with Napoleon’s brother Jerome as its king and Kassel its capital city
1808
27 May
Dorothea Grimm dies
Jacob Grimm takes a position in Kassel as the new king’s librarian
Goethe’s Faust, Part I is published by Joseph Anton Goebhardt, Bamberg and Würzburg
1809
Jacob retains the new king’s favor and enjoys a promotion and increase in pay
Around this time, and at the suggestion of Clemens Brentano, the brothers begin to collect folk tales
1811
30 October
Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility is published anonymously by Thomas Egerton, London
1812
7 February
Charles Dickens is born
10 March
Lord Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage is published by John Murray, London
12 June
Napoleon invades Russia
18 June
The United States declares war on Great Britain
The Grimm Brothers’ Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children’s and Household Tales) is published by the Realschulbuchhandlung, Berlin. This first volume comprises eighty-six stories
1813
Wilhelm Grimm is appointed to a post at the library in Kassel
21 June
The Duke of Wellington defeats Joseph Bonaparte at the Battle of Vitoria
King Jerome is overthrown; the Hesse electorate is re-established
Jacob is taken back into service for the state of Hesse and is named secretary to a peace legation
Percy Bysshe Shelley self-publishes his poem Queen Mab
8 December
Beethoven premieres his Symphony no. 7 in Vienna
1814
10 April
Wellington wins the Battle of Toulouse, ending the Peninsular War
11 April
Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba
30 May
The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the war between the Great Britain–led Sixth Coalition and France
September
Jacob accompanies the Hesse legation to the Congress of Vienna as secretary
24 December
The Treaty of Ghent is signed by the United Kingdom and the United States, ending the War of 1812
1815
The second volume of the Grimm Brothers’ Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children’s and Household Tales), containing an additional seventy stories, is published by the Realschulbuchhandlung, Berlin
20 March
Napoleon returns to Paris from his exile on Elba
8 June
By act of the Congress of Vienna, the state of Hesse-Kessel joins the German Confederation led by Prussia
18 June
Wellington and von Blücher defeat Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo
20 November
The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Napoleonic Wars
1816
The first volume of the Grimms’ Deutsche Sagen (German Legends) is published in Berlin
Jacob Grimm takes the post of second librarian at Kassel
25 May
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem Kubla Kahn is published by John Murray, London
1817
E. T. A. Hoffman’s Nachtstücke (The Night Pieces) is published in Berlin
18 July
Jane Austen dies
1818
1 January
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is published by Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones, London
1819
The first volume of Jacob Grimm’s Deutsche Grammatik (German Grammar) is published by Dieterich, Gottingen
E. T. A. Hoffman’s Die Serapionsbrüder is published in Berlin. It contains a short story first published in 1816 titled “Nussknacker und Mausekönig” (“The Nutcracker and the Mouse King”)
Jacob and Wilhelm are both awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Marburg
1821
25 March
Greece declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire
18 June
Carl Maria von Weber’s Der Freischütz premieres at the Schauspielhaus in Berlin
1824
Leopold von Ranke’s Geschichte der romanischen und germanischen Völker von 1494 bis 1514 (History of the Latin and Teutonic Peoples from 1494 to 1514) is published in Berlin
7 May
Beethoven’s Symphony no. 9 premieres in Vienna at the Theatre am Kärntnertor
1825
Wilhelm Grimm marries Henriette Dorothea Wild, a major contributor to the folk tales, with whom he will have four children
1826
The Grimms’ Irishe Elfenmärchen (Irish Fairy Tales) is published in Leipzig
1829
The Grimms leave Kassel after not receiving an expected promotion and relocate to Göttingen, where they are hired by the university. Jacob is both a professor and librarian, while Wilhelm works as an under-librarian
1832
Goethe’s Faust, Part Two is published by Cotta, Stuttgart
1835
8 May
The first three-story installment of Hans Christian Andersen’s first collection of nine fairy tales, titled Fairy Tales Told for Children, First Collection, is published by C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen
16 December
The second installment of Andersen’s Fairy Tales Told for Children (which includes his original tale, “Thumbelina”) is published by C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen
Jacob Grimm’s Deutsche Mythologie (German Mythology) is published by Dieterich, Göttingen
1837
7 April
The third and final installment of Andersen’s Fairy Tales Told for Children (which includes his original tale, “The Little Mermaid”) is published by C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen
28 June
King George III of England’s fifth son, Ernest, is crowned King of Hanover and requires an oath of allegiance from all government employees, including those at the university
Summer
The Grimms join with five other professors at Göttingen (Die Göttingen Sieben, or “The Göttingen Seven”) in refusing to take the oath and are dismissed from their positions
The Grimms return to Kassel
1838
2 October
Hans Christian Andersen’s second collection of fairy tales, titled Fairy Tales Told for Children (1838), is published by C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen, and includes his original tale “The Steadfast Tin Soldier”
1839
21 March
Ten years after Franz Schubert’s death, Felix Mendelssohn premieres Schubert’s Ninth Symphony (“the Great”) at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig
1840
25 June
Felix Mendelssohn’s Second (Choral) Symphony premieres at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig
The Grimms take appointments as professors at the University of Berlin and are elected to the Academy of Sciences
1848
21 February
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’s Communist Manifesto is published by the Communist League in London
18 May
The Grimms are elected to the all-German National Assembl
y that meets in Frankfurt am Main, but they leave disillusioned
22 May
The Prussian National Assembly convenes in Berlin to write a constitution
Jacob Grimm’s Geschichte der deutschen Sprache (History of the German Language) is published in Leipzig
Jacob Grimm retires from teaching to continue to write scholarly books and articles for academic journals
5 December
King Frederick William IV of Prussia accepts the constitution written and ratified by the Monarchist Party
1851
6 February
Robert Schumann premieres his Third Symphony (the Rhenish) in Dusseldorf
1852
Wilhelm Grimm retires and the brothers continue their work on the German Dictionary (incomplete at their death)
1857
The seventh edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen is published by Dieterich, Göttingen