This is the first modern biography of the Brothers Grimm, first published in 1970. It is a study of them in their background of late eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century Germany, and shows the position they held in their society as founders of Germanic philology, as members...
This book shows that the brothers Grimm deserve the respect and affection also for reasons other than the discovery of the Marchen. It focuses on the folktale as a subject for serious enquiry.