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Brothers Grimm
Jacob (right) and Wilhelm Grimm, oil portrait by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann, 1855; in the National-Galerie, Berlin.
Jacob Grimm participated in the Congress of Vienna, which took place from September 1814 to June 1815. This conference was convened by major political powers to reorganize Europe following the Napoleonic Wars.1
While he was present at the congress, his primary role during that period, serving as secretary to the legation, also involved traveling to Paris to recover books and paintings that had been taken from Hesse and Prussia by the French.1