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by Brothers Grimm


  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

  Valiant Little Tailor, The, ref 1

  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

  William Wordsworth writes the sonnet “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802”

  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

 

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