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Sunday, May 3, 2009

It is believed that Wendelin Grimm is a cousin to Philipp Wilhelm Grimm

It is believed that Wendelin Grimm's father Valentin Grimm is a cousin to Philipp Wilhelm Grimm the father of and Jacob and Wilhem's Grimm. Thus my family tree's relation to the brothers Grimm.

Chronology of their life according to D. L. Ashliman

1785. Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm is born January 4, 1785, in Hanau, Germany, son of Philipp Wilhelm Grimm (a lawyer and court official) and his wife Dorothea Grimm, née Zimmer.

1786. Wilhelm Carl Grimm is born February 24, 1786, in Hanau, Germany, son of Philipp Wilhelm Grimm and Dorothea Grimm.

The children of Philipp Wilhelm Grimm and Dorothea Grimm
  1. Friedrich Hermann Georg Grimm (1783-1784)
  2. Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm (1785-1863)
  3. Wilhelm Carl Grimm (1786-1859)
  4. Carl Friedrich Grimm (1787-1852)
  5. Ferdinand Philipp Grimm (1788-1844)
  6. Ludwig Emil Grimm (1790-1863)
  7. Friedrich Grimm (1791-1792)
  8. Charlotte (Lotte) Amalie Hassenpflug, neé Grimm (1793-1833)
  9. Georg Eduard Grimm (1794-1795)
1791. The Grimm family moves to Steinau.

1796. Philipp Wilhelm Grimm, father of eight Grimm brothers and one Grimm sister, dies January 10, 1796, at the age of 44. Three of his nine children have preceded him in death. His oldest surviving child, Jacob, is 11 years old.

1798. Jacob and Wilhelm move to Kassel, their mother's home city, to enter secondary school. The 13 and 14 year old boys will live with an aunt.

1802. Jacob begins his study of law at the University of Marburg.

1803. Wilhelm begins his study of law at the University of Marburg.

1806. Jacob and Wilhelm, influenced by the folk poetry collection of Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim, Des Knaben Wunderhorn, begin to collect folktales (Märchen).

1808. Dorothea Grimm, mother of eight Grimm brothers and one Grimm sister, dies May 27, 1808, at the age of 52. In order to support his younger brothers and sister, Jacob takes a position as a librarian at Kassel. Wilhelm will follow soon