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Both brothers were famous language scientists and their scientific research had been - among other things - aimed at the sources of the German language such as these still lived in the oral tradition of fairy-tales and sages.
As from 1819 appeared updated and improved versions and in 1822 a third part was published, the so-called "Anmerkungen" - a bulky bookwork with notes of the brothers Grimm themselves concerning the origin and the meaning of the collected stories.
The fairy-tales of Grimm are and remain unprecedentedly popular.
In 1837, the Brothers Grimm joined five of their colleague professors at the University of Göttingen to protest against the abolition of the liberal constitution of the state of Hanover by King Ernest Augustus I of Hanover.
The Grimms helped foment a nationwide democratic public opinion in Germany and are cherished as the progenitors of the German democratic movement, whose revolution of 1848/1849 was crushed brutally by the Kingdom of Prussia, where there was established a constitutional monarchy.
A modern editor of the Brothers Grimm and interpreter of the fairy tales tradition is Jack Zipes.
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