Dorothea Grimm

Dorothea Grimm
1808 portrait of Dorothea by her son Ludwig
Born
Dorothea Zimmer

November 20, 1755
DiedMay 27, 1808(1808-05-27) (aged 52)
Kassel, Hesse, Germany
Resting placeAltstädter Cemetery, Kassel
NationalityGerman
Spouse
(m. 1783)
Children9, including Jacob, Wilhelm, and Ludwig
RelativesLudwig Hassenpflug (son-in-law)

Dorothea Grimm (née Zimmer; November 20, 1755 – May 27, 1808)[1] was the mother to the "Brothers Grimm" Jacob and Wilhelm, and seven other children, including Ludwig Emil Grimm and Charlotte Amalie Grimm.[2]

  1. ^ Grimm, Jacob (1883). Teutonic Mythology. W. Swan Sonnenschein & Allen. pp. xlviii.
  2. ^ Stoll, Adolf (1908). Dorothea Grimm, die Mutter der Brüder Grimm: zu ihrem Andenken an ihrem 100jähr. Todestag 1808, 27 Mai, 1908 (in German). Gebr. Gotthelft in Komm.