《格林童话精选》作者简介雅可布·格林(1785-1863),威廉·格林(1786-1859),德国人。出生于莱茵河畔的哈瑙,年龄仅差一岁,父亲是一名小官吏。两人的青年时代是在拿破仑占领德国的时期度过。两人求学与工作经历相近,均曾在马堡大学学法律,又同在卡色勒图书馆工作和在哥廷根大学做教授,是德国博学多闻的学者两兄弟——民间文学研究家、语言学家、历史学家。在德国浪漫派作家的启发下,两兄弟1806年开始搜集民间流传的童话故事和古老传说,以数十年时间 “Grimbling Fairy Tales” by Jacob Green (1785-1863), William Green (1786-1859), German. Born on the Rhine, Hanau is only one year old and his father is a small bureaucrat. Their youth was spent during Napoleon’s occupation of Germany. Both studied at school and had similar work experience. They both studied law at Marburg University, worked at the Cassler Library, and taught at the University of Göttingen. They are two brothers and scholars of German scholarship - folk literature researchers. Linguists, historians. Inspired by the German romantic writers, the two brothers began collecting fairy tales and ancient legends that were circulated by the people in 1806 for decades.