Albert Ludwig Grimm

Grimm, Albert Ludwig (1786–1872), a contemporary of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, but unrelated, published numerous volumes of literary fairy tales that aimed at young readers' amusement and education. His 1809 Kindermährchen (Children's Fairy Tales) mixed fairy tales with fables and parables and was followed by Lina's Mährchenbuch (Lina's Fairy Tale Book, 2 vols.) in 1816. In 1820 he drew upon The Arabian Nights with Mährchen der Tausend und Einen Nacht (Fairy Tales from the Thousand and One Nights), after which he produced Geschichten des Prinzen Kodadat und seiner 49 Brüder (Histories of Prince Kodadat and his Forty‐Nine Brothers, 1824); Mährchen der alten Griechen (Tales of the Ancient Greeks, 1824), classic myths told in fairy‐tale style; a 7‐volume Mährchen‐Bibliothek für Kinder (Fairy Tale Library for Children, 1826); Bunte Bilder (Colourful Pictures, 1834); Mährchen aus dem Morgenlande (Fairytales from the Orient, 1843). After his retirement, Grimm published Deutsche Sagen und Mährchen (German Legends and Tales, 1867); and edited and republished the fairy tales of J. K. A. Musäus (1868) and of Wilhelm Hauff (1870) for young people.

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm scorned A. L. Grimm's fairy tales, yet Jacob borrowed ‘Die drei Königssöhne’ (‘The Three Princes’), editing and retitling it ‘Die Bienenkönigin’ (‘The Queen Bee’); both incorporated ‘Snow‐White’, but A. L. Grimm treated the Queen more gently. Like Jacob and Wilhelm, A. L. Grimm included numerous minor genres in his tale collections: magic tale, parable, fable, and literary fairy tale.

Bibliography

• Allgayer, Gustav, Albert Ludwig Grimm: Sein Leben, sein öffentliches und literarisches Wirken (1931).
• Grimm, Albert Ludwig, Kindermärchen, ed. Ernst Schade (1992; orig. 1809).

— Ruth B. Bottigheimer