Jacob Grimm
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Jacob Grimm was a German scholar (1785–1863) who made significant contributions to the study of language, law, mythology, and philology. He is best known for collecting and publishing German folktales with his brother Wilhelm, work that helped preserve cultural heritage and influenced the study of folklore worldwide.
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5 total works indexed
- A power primer.
· 1992 · cited 41,063x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,522x
- A Coefficient of Agreement for Nominal Scales
· 1960 · cited 31,155x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,392x
- Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences
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36 objects attributed to Jacob Grimm, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm (4 January 1785 – 20 September 1863), also known as Ludwig Karl, was a German author, linguist, philologist, jurist, and folklorist. He formulated Grimm's law of linguistics, and was the co-author of the Deutsches Wörterbuch, the author of Deutsche Mythologie, and the editor of Grimms' Fairy Tales. He was the older brother of Wilhelm Grimm; together, they were the literary duo known as the Brothers Grimm.
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1785 births1863 deaths19th-century German anthropologists19th-century German jurists19th-century German male writers19th-century German philologists19th-century German writersAcademic staff of the University of GöttingenBrothers GrimmFellows of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesGermanic studies scholarsGerman lexicographers
