Grimm

(grim,) FRIED RICH MELCHIOR, BARON, a German author, B. at Ratisbon, 1723. He mixed much in the best French society of his time, and became secretary to the Duc d'Orleans, and in 1795, Ru ian Minister to Hamburg. D. 1807. His Correspond ance Littéraire, Phi losophiqueet Critique, published in 15 vols., 1829-31, is the work on which his literary reputation is based. Grimm, JAKOB LUDWIG, a German philologist, B. at Hanau, was a ociated in his literary labors with his brother, WILHELM KARL, B. 1786. Their principal joint work is the well-known and highly esteemed German Dictionary bearing their names, and published in 1859. Jakob, whoD. in 1863, was also the author of the Legal Antiquities of Germany; a History of the German Language, and German Mythology-all standard works. Wilhelm D. in 1859. [s. 426]