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. Grimes (grīmz), James Wilson. Born at Deering, N. H., Oct. 20, 1816: died at Burlington, Iowa, Feb. 7, 1872. An American politician, governor of Iowa1854–58, and Republican United States senator from Iowa 1859-69. He was one of the few Republican senators who voted against the conviction of President Andrew Johnson. Grimes, Old. See Old Grimes . Grimké (grim'ke), Frederick. Born at Charles- ton, S. C., Sept. 1, 1791: died March 8,1863. An American jurist, brother of T. S. Grimké. He lologist and writer. He studied jurisprudence at Marburg. In 1805 he went to Paris to a ist Savigny, whose pupil he had been. The following year he was at the military 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 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 Le gends'"), and after 1852 worked together on the great "Deutsches Wörterbuch" ("German Dictionary"). Jakob's independent work consists of an e ay, "Poesie im Recht" (1816), expanded 1828 into "Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer." 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 terminology originated with him, and one of its most characteristic phases, that of the relative correspondence of consonants, was first formulated by him, and bears the name of Grimm's Law. In 1835 appeared another great work, the "Deutsche My tho logie." His minor works, "Kleinere Schriften," appeared at Berlin, 1864-82, in 6 vols. Grimm, Ludwig Emil. Born at Hanau, Pru ia, May 14, 1790: died at Ca el, Pru ia, April 4,1863. A German painter and etcher, brother of Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm. Grimm, Wilhelm. Born at Hanau, Feb. 24, 1786: died at Berlin, Dec. 16, 1859. A German phi lologist and writer. He was the brother of Jakob Grimm, with whom he lived and was frequently a ociated in joint authorship. Like his brother, he studied jurisprudence at Marburg. Owing to ill health he had, however, 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 tales which owe their particular style to him. An independent work was "Die Deutsche Held ens age” (“The German Heroic Legend," 1829). Grimma (grim'mä). A town in the district of Leipsic, Saxony, on the Mulde 17 miles southeast of Leipsic. It contains a noted school and 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 magistrate at Renchen, where he died. His principal work, and the most important of its cla in German literature, is the romance "Der abenteurliche Simplici imus Teutsch, das ist: Beschreibung des Lebens eines Seltzamen Vagantens genannt Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim" ("The Adven turesome Simplici imus: That is, Description of the Life of a Strange Vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim," 1669). Grimsby, or Great Grimsby. See Great Grimsby . Grim's Dyke, or Grimes ditch. See the extract.