Word: wunderhorn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your reviewer of Grimm's Fairy Tales (TIME, Feb. 5) must have been referring to the wrong page in his history of German literature when he wrote that "their [the Grimm brothers'] first publication, in 1805, was a collection of folksongs, Des Knaben Wunderhorn." This well-known collection of older German folksongs was published by the German romanticists Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano...
...TIME slipped on its dates. The Grimm brothers, proteges of Von Arnim and Brentano, collaborated on later volumes of the Wunderhorn...
...their joint task Jacob was the indefatigable collector, Wilhelm the devoted editor. But the purpose of both was to preserve intact the rhythms and patterns of a primitive, oral literature. Their first publication, in 1805, was a collection of folk songs, Des Knaben Wunderhorn. The following year Napoleon overran Westphalia. Jacob, who spoke French, got a clerkship in the war office and in 1808 was appointed superintendent of King Jerome Buonoparte's private library. The job assured the brothers an income with which to continue their life work...
...comes of a noble and wealthy landed family. The family has boasted admirals, generals, statesmen (one, who had been ambassador to France in Bismarck's time, was accused of embezzling state papers and fled Germany), poets (one was the romanticist Ludwig Achim von Arnim, author of Des Knaben Wunderhorn...