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Grimm, Jakob
(Encyclopedia)Grimm, Jakob yä´kôp grm [key], 1785–1863, German philologist and folklorist, a founder of comparative philology. His interest in the relationship among Germanic languages led to his formulation...Grimm's law
(Encyclopedia)Grimm's law, principle of relationships in Indo-European languages, first formulated by Jakob Grimm in 1822 and a continuing subject of interest and investigation to 20th-century linguists. It shows t...Behmen, Jakob
(Encyclopedia)Behmen, Jakob: see Boehme, Jakob.Boehme, Jakob
(Encyclopedia)Boehme or Böhme, Jakob b´m, Ger. yä´kôp bö´m [key], 1575–1624, German religious mystic, a cobbler of Görlitz, in England also called Behmen. He was a student of the Bible and was influ...Böhme, Jakob
(Encyclopedia)Böhme, Jakob: see Boehme, Jakob.Wassermann, Jakob
(Encyclopedia)Wassermann, Jakob yä´kôp väs´rmän [key], 1873–1934, Austrian novelist, b. Bavaria. He won international fame with Christian Wahnschaffe (1919; tr. The World's Illusion, 1920), a novel whose ...Bidermann, Jakob
(Encyclopedia)Bidermann, Jakob yä´kôp b´drmän [key], 1578–1639, German Jesuit dramatist and poet. Based on saint and martyr legends, Bidermann's plays were among the finest artistic expressions of the Co...Steiner, Jakob
(Encyclopedia)Steiner, Jakob yä´kôp sht´nr [key], 1796–1863, Swiss mathematician. He was largely self-taught and was professor of geometry at the Univ. of Berlin from 1834. A pioneer in the development of...Hanau
(Encyclopedia)Hanau hä´nou [key], city (1994 pop. 89,160), Hesse, central Germany, on the Main and Kinzig rivers. It is an important rail and road junction and is a center of the German jewelry industry. Other ma...Grimm, Friedrich Melchior, Baron
(Encyclopedia)Grimm, Friedrich Melchior, Baron fr´drkh ml´khôr bärn´ grm [key], 1723–1807, German man of letters in France. He contributed to the Encyclopédie articles on music that were bellige...Browse by Subject
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