Everyone, at some point in their life, has probably read or watched some sort of fairy tale. Such examples of Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella, and more recently for most of the people in this class, Godfather Death. While most of these are portrayed today as whimsical Disney animated movies, they were actually written nearly 200 hundred years ago by two brothers, Jacob Ludwig Carl and Wilhelm Carl Grimm. The oldest of 6 siblings, Jacob and Wilhelm were both born in the town of Hanau. They attended high school in Kassel, and like their father before them, they both studied law at the University of Marburg from 1802 to 1806 (Denecke). At Marburg, they meet two men named Clemens Brentano and Friedrich Karl von Savigny. Various conversations and expericnes with these men led the brothers to look into folklore and old Germanic folklore. (Denecke). In the year 1816, both of the brothers elected to drop studying law, and focus solely on folk literature and music (Denecke).
The significance of the Brothers and their stories is that without the Grimm Brothers deciding to collect all these stories, they may not have collected, and might not have survived orally for 200 years. A lot of fantasy stories and movies use the tales the Grimm Brothers collected, so without the published collections, many movies and books may not have been created and published.
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