Date:  Thu, 4 Jan 1996 12:05:03 -0400

From:  Barnhart <Barnhart[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]HIGHLANDS.COM>

Subject: Today's Lex



Born January 4, 1785: Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm. German philologist and writer.

 After 1815 he worked together with his brother, Wilhelm Karl Grimm, on the

great Deutsches Worterbuch. This is the fundamental work in comparative

German philology, of which specific branch he may be called the founder. Its

principal terminology originated with him, and one of its most characteristic

phrases, though first formulated by Rask, bears the name of Grimm's law.



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