GRIMM, JACOB LUDWIG KARL

ee 1863), hee 2 pivioionit: Be sy WilhelmshGhe in 1806. In 1816 he joined his bro., Wilhelm Karl, 1786-1859, at the Ca el library as sub-librarian. The lives of the bro’s were devoted to a scientific study of the Ger. languages and folk-lores, and their researches were epoch-making. They collaborated in the famous collection of fairy-tales, Jacob wrote a Deutsche Grammatik, Geschichte der Deutschen Sprache, and a Deutsche My tho logie-—Grimm’s Law, term loosely applied to rules regulating consonant shift’ in various Indo-Euros pean languages. The elder G. applied it to the change into Teutonic dialect, then into High German, (e.g. )Lat. pater, English (from Teuton dialect) father, German vaier; Latin tu, English thou, German du,