Brother's Grimm Gravesite

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were 19th century folklorists who made a life's work out
of codifying a canon of German fairy tales, introducing the entire world to a
set of stories that we've been retelling and using as templates for new stories
ever since. They gave us Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood, Rumpelstiltskin
and Snow White, Rapunzel and Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel. So many more
and so much more. They gave us fantasy and nightmare, innocence and violence,
adventure and menace. They helped us realize the importance of story in our and
our children's lives. And they just had great names. The Brothers Adlersflügel
wouldn't have had the same ring.
Jacob was born in 1785, Wilhelm the very
next year, both in the town of Hanau, Germany. Most of their lives were spent
together in academia, and they published the first edition of Grimm's Fairy
Tales in 1812. Both died about four years apart, in 1863 and 1859,
respectively, and were buried in Alter St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof in Berlin.