Authors' Biography (Brothers Grimm)

Authors’ Biography

Rumpelstiltskin was written by the most well-known authors of all time whom they called themselves as Brothers Grimm. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm are almost without a doubt Germany’s most famous collectors of folktales. Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm was born in 1785 and he was the eldest of the six Grimm children. Three of his siblings were not so fortunate and died young. Wilhelm Carl Grimm was born in 1786 and he was the youngest child in the Grimm’s family. Carl and Wilhelm were very close and both of them decided to study law at the University of Marburg at the beginning of the 19^th century. Then, they began to collect folktales and they were interested in mythology, folklore and dreams by German Romantic literature, art and music. In 1812, they published Children’s and Household which also known as “Grimm’s Fairy Tales”. Their collections included the world’s famous stories of all time like Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, Repunzel and Rumpelstiltskin.