Grimm, Jakob

Born at Hanau, Jan. 4, 1785: printed in 1662 as by "I. T." Haught on wrote a play died at Berlin, Sept. 20, 1863. A German phi identified with this. ( Bullen .) Richard Crowley wrote a "Satirical Epigram" in 1550 called "The Collier of Croy. "Damon and Pythias" (1571) called "Grim the Collier." don," and there is an interlude in Richard Edwards's Grim, Giant. A giant, in Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progre ," who is killed by Mr. Great heart. Grimald (grim'ald), Nicholas. Born in Hun- ting dons hire (at "Browns hold," according to his own statement), 1519: died about 1562. An English writer, the contributor of 40 poems to the first edition of "Tottel's Miscellany" (of which he was, perhaps, the editor), many of which were omitted from the second edition. He also published a translation of Cicero's "De Officiis." He was probably of Italian parentage (son of a certain and was chaplain to Bishop Ridley. Gianbatista Grimaldi), studied at Cambridge and Oxford, Griffith (grif'ith). In Shakspere's "Henry VIII.," a gentleman usher to Queen Katharine. Griffith, William Pettit. Born at London, Ama IMG:content-0482.png:[ocr errors] clergyman. Dictionary" (1847). Grigoriopol (grē-gō-rē-ō'pol). A town in the government of Kherson, Ru ia, on the Dnies- ter about 80 miles northwest of Ode a. Popu- lati on (1889), 6,478. Grihastha (gr-has't-ha). [Skt., 'householder.'] A Brahman in the second stage of his religious life. miral. Grimaldi, Giovanni Francesco, called Il Bolognese. Born at Bologna, Italy, 1606: died at Rome, 1680. An Italian painter, especially noted for his landscapes. Grimaldi, Joseph. Born at London, Dec. 18, 1779: died there, May 31, 1837. A noted English pantomimist and actor. He came of a well known family of clowns, and first appeared as an infant dancer in 1782. He obtained his greatest succe at Covent which he appeared as Squire Bugle (clown). He made his Garden in 1806 in the pantomime of "Mother Goose," in last appearance June 27, 1828, as Harlequin Hoax. His singing and grimacing excited great enthusiasm, and with him the days of genuine pantomime expired. His son Joseph S. Grimaldi made his first appearance in his father's parts in 1814; he died in 1832. Dict . Nat . Biog. a gray cat into which the spirit of a witch has Grimalkin (gri-mal'kin). A gray cat; especially, entered. Grimani (grē-mä'nē), Antonio. Born 1436: 7, died May 7, 1523. A doge of Venice (July 1521), descended from a powerful patrician fam ily, and distinguished for both his civil and military services. He was made captain-general of the Venetian fleet sent against the sultan Baja zet in 1499. Grimani Palace. A fine 16th-century palace on the Grand Canal, Venice. It was designed by San Michel i and decorated by Tin to ret to, but the frescos have disappeared. It is now used as a post-office. lologist and writer. He studied jurisprudence at Marburg. In 1805 he went to Paris to a ist Savigny, whose tary school in Ca el. In 1808 he became librarian to the King of Westphalia. After 1814 he lived and labored with his brother Wilhelm in the closest a ociation. They pupil he had been. The following year he was at the mil i were together librarians at Ca el; 1830 to 1837 profe ors at Göttingen; subsequently again at Ca el; and 1841 on the invitation of the king settled in Berlin. In 1812 and 1815 they published conjointly the well-known book of fairy tales "Kinder und Hausmärchen" (" Children's and Domestic Tales'), in 1816 "Deutsche Sagen" ("German Legends"), and after 1852 worked together on the great "Deutsches Wörterbuch" ("German Dictionary"). Jakob's. independent work consists of an e ay, "Poesie im Recht" Beginning with 1829, his "Deutsche Grammatik" ("German Grammar") appeared. This last is the fundamental work in comparative Germanic philology, of which specific branch he may be called the founder. Its principal (1816), expanded 1828 into "Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer." of consonants, was first formulated by him, name of Grimm's Law. In 1835 appeared another great terminology originated with him, and one of its most characteristic phases, that of the relative correspondence "Kleinere Schriften," appeared at Berlin, 1864-82, in 6 vols. work, the "Deutsche My tho logie." His minor works, sia, May 14, 1790: died at Ca el, Pru ia, April Grimm, Ludwig Emil. Born at Hanau, Prus4, 1863. A German painter and etcher, brother of Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm. Grimm, Wilhelm. Born at Hanau, Feb. 24, 1786: lologist and writer. He was the brother of Jakob Grimm, with whom he lived and was frequently a ociated died at Berlin, Dec. 16, 1859. A German phi- in joint authorship. Like his brother, he studied juris- prudence at Marburg. Owing to ill health he had, how- ever, no permanent position up to 1814, when he went with Jakob as librarian to Ca el. Their subsequent career is one. (See Jakob Grimm .) Wilhelm married, and Jacob did not. He did the chief work in the collection of fairy man Heroic Legend," 1829). pendent work was "Die Deutsche Held ens age" ("The Ger- tales which owe their particular style to him. An inde- east of Leipsic. It contains a noted school and Grimma (grim'mä). A town in the district of Leipsic, Saxony, on the Mulde 17 miles south an electoral castle. Population (1890), 8,957. Grim mels hausen (grimmels-hou-zen), Chris toph von. Born at Gelnhausen, Pru ia, 1625: died at Renchen, in Baden, Aug. 17, 1676. A German writer. His parents belonged to the peasant cla . Until the peace of Westphalia, in 1648, he was a soldier, but subsequently is supposed to have traveled in Holland, France, and Switzerland. He was afterward in the service of the Bishop of Strasburg, and ultimately mag is