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Brothers Grimm
Jacob (right) and Wilhelm Grimm, oil portrait by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann, 1855; in the National-Galerie, Berlin.
The Brothers Grimm were encouraged to publish their collected tales by their friend Achim von Arnim.1
Initially, the brothers had collected folk songs and tales for Arnim and Clemens Brentano, who had previously collaborated on a collection of folk lyrics. With Arnim's encouragement, the brothers published their own work as the Kinder- und Hausmärchen ("Children’s and Household Tales"). This collection, which aimed to preserve the soul and imagination of the people, became a foundational work in the study of folktales and remains a model for such collections today.1